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SOME  PLANS  AND  PROGRAMMES 

FOR    USE    IN 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SOCIETIES,  SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, 
AND  CHRISTIAN  TEMPERANCE  UNIONS. 


BELLE  M.  BRAIN, 

AUTHOR    OF    "  FUEL    FOR    MISSIONARY    FIRES. 


"  Fight  the  drink  !  Fight  it,  fight  it  wherever  ive  find  it,  fight  it 
in  the  social  circle,  fight  it  in  tlie  dram-shop,  fight  it  at  home,  fight 
it  abroad.  I  expect  to  my  dying  day  to  fight  the  drink  with  every 
lawful weapof I, ''"' — John  B.  Gough. 


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jFrances  IE.  rafllarli, 

"The  Best  Loved  Woman  in  America," 

Whose  Message  to  Temperance  Committees  on  the 
following    page   suggested   the 

preparation    OF    IT, 

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Is  Affectionately  Dedicated. 

BELLE  M.  BRAIN. 
Springfield,  Ohio, 

Ja7i.  2  1,  1897. 


The  Cottage,  Reigate,  England, 

August  22,  1896. 

To  THE  Members  of  Temperance  Coisimittees. 

Beloved  younger  Brothers  and  Sisters  — 

Only  a  clear  brain  can  think  God's  thoughts  after  him. 

Only  a  steady  hand  can  glorify  the  divine  Carpenter  by  faith- 
ful industry. 

Only  a  heart  unhurried  by  artificial  stimulants  can  be  loyal 
in  its  love  toward  Christ  and  humanity. 

I  beseech  you  to  be  incessant  and  ingenious  in  your  efforts 
to  teach  total  abstinence  for  the  sake  of  Head,  Hand,  and 
Heart ;   and  to  take  as  your  watchwords 

home  protection, 

and 

THE    LIQUOR    TRAFFIC    MUST    BE    DESTROYED. 

Yours  in  the  purpose  to  glorify  God  in  our  bodies  and  our 
spirits,  which  are  his. 

Frances  E.  Willard, 


A  pari  of  the  matter  in  the  following  pages  has  appeared  in 
the  columns  <?/The  Sunday.School  Times,  The  author  de- 
sires to  acknoudedge  the  kindness  and  courtesy  of  ike  publisher 
in  allowing  it  to  be  reprinted. 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


PAGES 

A  Plea  for  Temperance  Teaching 9 

Encouragements  to  Temperance  Work 11 

Pledge-signing 14 

What  shall  We  Teach  ? 16 

The  Devotional  Service  of  the  Temperance  IMeeting       .     .  17 

Temperance  Budgets 24 

Sketches  of  Noted  Temperance  Workers 31 

Our  Foreign  Mail 34 

Sharp-shooting 35 

Quotations 40 

Facts  and  Figures 47 

Scripture  Problem 53 

Conversations ; 56 

A  Quiz  on  Alcohol 57 

Drinking,  and  Positions  of  Trust 60 

The  Opinions  of  some  Great  People 61 

A  Temperance  Pow-Wow 63 

Personal  Reminiscences  of  Temperance  Workers       ...  64 

Two-Minute  Talks  on  Temperance 64 

Surprise  Meeting 65 

Sermon  with  Hidden  Text 66 

From  our  Watch-Tower 66 

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8  TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

PAGES 

Temperance  Contests 67 

Original  Stories  and  Poems 67 

Temperance  Anecdotes 68 

Traditions  about  Alcohol 68 

Temperance  Catechisms 68 

Simple  Experiments  with  Alcohol 69 

Titles  for  Temperance  Papers 75 

An  Evening  with  John  B.  Gough 81 

"  The  Wicked  Company  of  the  Man  Wonderful  in  the    .  83 

House  Beautiful."  —  An  Allegory 

A  Palaver  about  Africa  and  the  Liquor  Traffic   ....  85 

A  Lesson  in  Temperance  History 97 

Alcohol  Unmasked 98 

An  Evening  with  the  W.  C.  T.  U 100 

Wanted !     A  Picture loi 

Wanted !     A  Story 102 

Lists  of  Books,  Leaflets,  etc 103 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE 
WARFARE. 


A  PLEA  FOR  TEMPERANCE  TEACHING. 

A  WELL-KNOWN  temperance  worker,  who  was 
asked  to  address  a  Sabbath-school,  desired  to  bring 
out  the  fact  that  the  drunkards  of  the  future  must 
come  from  the  ranks  of  the  boys  of  to-day.  "  Boys,'' 
he  said,  "  these  men  all  around  us,  on  the  street,  in 
the  stores,  in  this  church,  are  growing  older  every 
day,  and  sooner  or  later  they  will  die.  Who  will 
take  their  places  and  be  the  men  then  ? "  A  moment's 
pause,  and  then  came  the  answer,  "  We  boys.*' 

"Very  true,  very  true.  Now,  boys,  you  have  all 
seen  men  who  drink  too  much,  —  drunkards,  we  call 
them.  They  are  growing  old  too,  and  will  die.  Now 
who  will  take  their  places,  and  be  the  drunkards  after 
awhile?"     Promptly  came  the  answer,  "  We  boys  !  " 

The  thoughtless  answer  startled  the  whole  school. 
Could  it  be  possible  that  any  of  these  bright  boys 
would  become  drunkards?  Alas,  yes!  The  record 
of  the  past  makes  it  reasonably  certain  that  many  of 
the  boys  in  the  classes  of  our  Sabbath-schools,  as 
well  as  in  the  ranks  of  our  young  people's  societies, 
will  come  under  the  power  of  the  drink  demon.  It 
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lO       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

is  stated  on  reliable  authority  that  nine-tenths  of 
the  criminals  were  once  Sabbath-school  children,  and 
also  that  nine-tenths  of  all  the  crime  is  the  result  of 
intemperance.  Of  forty-six  men  in  the  New  York 
Christian  Home  for  Intemperate  Men,  forty  (that  is 
eighty-eight  per  cent),  were  once  attendants  at  Sab- 
bath-school. On  the  other  hand,  it  is  quite  impos- 
sible to  estimate  the  vast  number  that  have  been 
saved  from  a  life  of  crime  and  intemperance  by  the 
restraining  power  of  the  Sabbath-school :  only  eter- 
nity will  reveal  this. 

These  facts  stand  as  great,  unanswerable  arguments 
in  favor  of  strong  and  faithful  temperance  teaching 
and  temperance  work  in  the  Sabbath-school  and  the 
young  people's  societies.  It  is  a  case  where  "an 
ounce  of  prevention  is  worth"  more  than  "a  pound 
of  cure."  John  B.  Gough  says,  "  Prevention  is  better 
than  cure.  It  is  worth  a  life  effort  to  lift  a  man 
from  degradation.  To  prevent  his  fall  is  far  better." 
And  Dwight  L.  Moody,  out  of  his  very  large  experi- 
ence, says,  "  I  have  been  working  a  good  deal  with 
drinking  men,  and  I  think  the  rest  of  my  work  will 
be  with  the  young.  Once  in  a  while  a  drunkard  may 
stand  up  for  a  time  and  keep  away  from  the  cup ; 
but  it  takes  all  his  strength  and  all  his  time  to  fight 
against  the  habit.  It  is  a  good  deal  better  to  begin 
when  you  are  young,  and  never  get  the  habit  fostered 
in  you." 

Thanks  to  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  temperance  teaching  in  the  public  schools  is 
compulsory  in  almost  all  States  of  the  Union.    Would 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.        II 

it  not  be  well  if  temperance  teaching  were  compul- 
sory in  all  our  Sabbath-schools  and  young  people's 
societies,  being  enforced  by  the  law  of  humanity  and 
Christian  love  ? 

"  I  took  a  piece  of  plastic  cla}', 
And  idly  fashioned  it  one  day ; 
And  as  my  fingers  pressed  it  still, 
It  moved  and  yielded  to  my  will. 

"  I  came  again  when  days  were  past  — • 
The  bit  of  clay  was  hard  at  last ; 
The  form  I  gave  it  still  it  bore, 
But  I  could  change  that  form  no  more. 

"  I  took  a  piece  of  living  clay, 
And  gently  formed  it  day  by  day ; 
And  moulded  with  my  power  and  art 
A  young  child's  soft  and  yielding  heart. 

"  I  came  again  when  years  were  gone  — 
It  was  a  man  I  looked  upon ; 
He  still  that  early,  impress  wore. 
And  I  could  change  him  never  more." 


ENCOURAGEMENTS    TO   TEMPERANCE    WORK. 

The  evil  of  intemperance  is  such  a  giant  evil  and 
seems  to  grow  in  power  with  such  rapidity,  that  many 
a  Christian  worker  engages  in  the  warfare  against  it 
simply  from  a  sense  of  duty,  with  little  hope  of  ac- 
complishing anything,  and  with  an  utter  lack  of  faith 


12   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

in  God's  power  to  overthrow  it.  But  God  can  over- 
throw it,  and- will  in  his  own  good  time. 

God  works  out  his  will  in  this  earth  through  hu- 
man instrumentality,  and  he  has  from  time  to  time, 
especially  during  this  nineteenth  century,  raised 
up  human  instruments  and  endued  them  with  great 
power,  and  these  have  wrought  a  mighty  change 
in  the  world's  views  on  the  temperance  question 
and  in  the  world's  customs  in  regard  to  drinking 
spirituous  liquors.  One  has  only  to  study  the  con- 
dition of  things  at  the  beginning  of  this  century  and 
compare  it  with  the  condition  of  things  now,  to  real- 
ize how  great  is  the  change  that  has  taken  place. 
(Read  "Fifty  Years  Ago,"  Walter  Besant ;  also 
"The  Great  Social  Change,"  Chapter  I.  in  "The 
Blue  Ribbon,"  by  Kimball.) 

Study  the  work  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush  (a  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence),  of  Dr.  Lyman 
Beecher,  Father  Mathew,  John  B.  Gough,  Frances 
E.  Willard,  Francis  Murphy,  the  women  of  the  Cru- 
sade, and  a  host  of  others,  scarcely  "  lesser  lights," 
and  see  with  what  tremendous  power  they  have  la- 
bored against  the  hquor  traffic,  and  how  great  the 
results  of  their  work  have  been.  Father  Mathew 
himself,  between  the  years  of  1838  and  1842,  secured 
five  million  pledges  in  Ireland  alone,  one  result  of 
which  was  that  the  consumption  of  liquor  fell  from 
11,595,536  gallons  in  1838  to  5,290,650  gallons  in 
1842,  a  decrease  of  over  6,000,000  gallons. 

It  is  well  to  remember  that  other  giant  evils  have 
been  put  down,  other  great  reforms  have  been  ac- 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   1 3 

complished  —  evils  that  men  said  were  too  deeply 
rooted  ever  to  be  cast  out,  reforms  that  men  said 
were  too  great  ever  to  be  effected.  Dr.  Crafts,  Su- 
perintendent of  the  National  Reform  Bureau,  says  : 
'•In  my  lifetime  (and  I  am  not  by  any  means  an  old 
man  yet)  five  giant  evils  that  men  said  were  here  to 
stay,  have  been  put  down,  and  two  more  are  so  nearly 
accomplished  that  we  may  almost  say  seven  great 
reforms  have  been  effected.  Slavery,  duelling,  the 
lottery,  the  spoils  system  (civil  service  reform),  and 
polygamy,  have  been  blotted  out  of  the  land  ;  while 
the  secret  ballot,  doing  away  with  the  selling  of  votes, 
and  temperance  instruction  in  the  public  schools, 
teaching  the  children  and  youth  the  evil  and  poison- 
ous effects  of  the  use  of  alcohol,  have  been  adopted 
in  almost  all  the  States  of  the  Union.''' 

If  these  great  reforms  have  been  effected,  so  can 
others.  Take  courage,  then,  brave  workers,  and  take 
up  this  warfare  for  "God,  and  Home,  and  Native 
Land,''  with  renewed  vigor,  remembering  that  God 
rules,  and  "  Christ  must  reign,  till  he  hath  put  all 
enemies  under  his  feet ;  "  and  that  "  the  weapons  of 
our  warfare  are  not  carnal,  but  mighty  through  God 
to  the  pulling  down  of  strongholds." 

"  Freighted  with  love  our  Temperance  Ship, 
Around  the  world  shall  sail ; 
Take  heart  and  hope,  dear  mariners,  — 
God's  errands  never  fail." 

—  Whittier. 


14       WEAPONS    FOR    TEIVIPERANCE    WARFARE. 


PLEDGE-SIGNING. 

"  Let  no  man  tell  me  that  he  is  safe  enough,  that  he  has  no 
occasion  to  take  the  pledge,  that  he  is  above  temptation." 

Father  Mathew. 

Every  Sabbath-school  and  every  young  people's 
society  should  endeavor  to  secure  a  total  abstinence 
pledge  from  each  of  its  members.  And  the  pledge- 
signing  need  not  stop  with  the  members,  but  may  be 
extended  to  their  relatives,  friends,  and  all  whom 
they  can  reach  in  any  way.  In  some  schools  and 
societies  pledge-cards  are  signed  and  kept  by  the  in- 
dividual signer,  and  the  names  placed  in  a  record 
book  by  the  secretary  of  the  school  or  by  the  chair- 
man of  the  temperance  committee.  Another  way  is 
to  place  the  names  on  a  large  "roll  of  honor" 
which  hangs  in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the  wall. 

Public  schools  in  Belgium  have  a  custom  which 
might  be  copied  to  advantage  by  our  Sabbath-schools 
and  societies  in  this  country.  They  celebrate  what 
is  called  "  pledge-taking  day,"  when  the  "  school  is 
decked  with  flowers,  and  the  pupils  are  in  holiday 
attire.  Local  officers,  clergymen,  and  parents  are 
invited  to  the  ceremony.  Children  from  the  age 
of  twelve  years  are  asked  to  pledge  themselves  to 
abstain  from  the  use  of  liquor  until  they  are  twenty, 
when  it  is  found  they  do  not  want  to  drink." 

Pledge-signing  among  children  is  greatly  needed. 
It  is  stated  on  good  authority  that  there  are  over  a 
hundred  thousand  drunkards  in  the  country  who  are 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   1 5 

boys  between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  twenty  years. 
The  writer  has  herself  known  a  number  of  cases  of 
Httle  children,  both  boys  and  girls,  in  the  public 
schools,  so  under  the  influence  of  liquor  as  to  be 
unable  to  do  the  work  required  of  them. 

Men,  women,  and  children  should  all  be  total  ab- 
stainers, not  only  for  the  sake  of  others,  but  for  their 
own  sakes,  and  signing  the  pledge  has  been  a  safe- 
guard to  thousands  of  souls.  So  deceptive,  so  in- 
sidious, so  powerful  a  foe  is  alcohol,  that  no  man 
dare  say  he  is  safe.  Dr.  Crafts  says  :  "  It  is  foolish 
egotism  to  say  you  are  too  strong  to  be  overcome 
by  that  mocker  who  has  conquered  such  giants  as 
Webster,  Pitt,  Burns,  and  Poe." 

There  is  only  one  safe  way,  and  that  is  to  stand 
pledged  to 

"  Clasp  the  teeth  and  not  undo  'em 
To  suffer  wet  damnation  to  run  thro'  'em." 

But,  as  Axel  Gustafson  so  wisely  says  :  "  We  want 
the  abstinence  that  is  voluntarily  imposed  upon 
himself  by  man,  under  the  serious  conviction  that 
intoxicating  drinks  are  evil."  Therefore  let  every 
crusade  against  liquor  be  accompanied  by  a  cam- 
paign of  intelligent  instruction  concerning  the  whole 
subject,  and  every  effort  to  secure  total  abstinence 
pledges  be  preceded  by  strong  and  effective  temper- 
ance teaching. 


1 6   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 


WHAT    SHALL    WE    TEACH? 

"  It  may  be  well  to  make  a  nearer  acquaintance  with  alcohol. 
Presenting  himself  as  he  does  under  the  character  of  a  bene- 
factor-general to  our  much  suffering  race,  under  all  circum- 
stances and  conditions, '  in  joyance  and  in  high  tides,  in  weeping 
and  in  woe,'  it  becomes  us  to  take  his  measure,  to  familiarize 
ourselves  with  his  changes  of  apparel  which  are  as  parti-colored 
as  the  rainbow  ;  to  take  note  of  his  deeds,  history,  and  charac- 
ter; to  trace  his  pedigree;  and,  in  brief,  to  analyze  him  from 
centre  to  skin."  —  John  Guthrie,  M.A.,  D.D. 

Temperance  teaching  may  be  made  very  bright 
and  attractive.  It  should  be  in  many  different  lines 
and  accomplished  by  using  a  great  variety  of  plans. 
There  is  an  abundance  of  most  excellent  literature 
on  the  subject.     Let  us  teach  — 

1.  The  history  and  nature  of  alcohol  and  alcoholic 
drinks,  calling  into  use  simple  chemical  experiments. 

2.  The  eifect  of  alcoholic  drinks  on  the  human 
system  and  its  various  organs,  making  use  of  simple 
experiments  and  of  the  admirable  plates  and  charts 
that  have  been  prepared  for  this  purpose. 

3.  The  failure  of  alcohol  to  cure  disease,  to  help  us 
to  endure  cold  and  heat,  to  sustain  us  under  either 
physical  or  mental  exertion,  or  to  prolong  life. 

4.  The  dangers  of  moderate  drinking ;  the  fearful 
growth  of  the  appetite  for  liquor ;  the  great  difficulty 
of  breaking  the  habit  once  formed ;  the  danger  of 
using  liquor  in  food  or  as  medicine. 

5.  The  poverty,  crime,  insanity,  immorality,  and 
disease  that  result  from  the  use  of  alcohol  and  al- 
coholic drinks. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   1 7 

6.  The  enormous  and  extravagant  expenditure  of 
money  caused  by  the  liquor  traffic. 

7.  The  history  of  the  temperance  movement  and 
the  lives  of  the  great  temperance  leaders. 

8.  What  is  going  on  now  in  the  world,  both  at 
home  and  abroad,  from  a  temperance  standpoint. 

9.  The  opposition  of  the  liquor  traffic  to  the  spread 
of  the  gospel. 

10.  Our  duty  and   responsibility  concerning   the 
temperance  question. 


PLANS   AND  PROGRAMMES  FOR  TEMPERANCE 
MEETINGS. 


THE   DEVOTIONAL   SERVICE   OF   THE   TEMPER- 
ANCE  MEETING. 

The  devotional  service  of  a  temperance  meeting, 
—  the  Scripture  lesson,  the  prayer,  the  music,  — 
must  receive  most  careful  attention,  for  they  are  most 
important  elements  in  making  a  meeting  both  attrac- 
tive and  effective.  A  bright  and  powerful  Scripture 
lesson  will  hold  interested  attention  ;  prayers  for  real 
needs  and  praise  for  real  blessings  will  find  an  echo 
in  all  hearts  ;  and  every  leader  knows  the  winning 
power  of  hymns  wisely  chosen  and  well  sung. 
*  * 

Prayer.  —  Have  short,  earnest  prayers  for  a  bless- 
ing on  this  special  meeting ;  for  our  land,  that  it  may 


l8   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

be  delivered  from  the  liquor  power;  for  the  children, 
that  they  may  grow  up  pure,  and  strong  to  resist  evil ; 
for  the  young  people,  that  their  influence  may  always 
be  on  the  right  side ;  for  those  that  are  enslaved  by 
their  appetite  for  drink  ;  and  especially  for  any  who 
are  striving  to  throw  off  the  yoke  and  do  better.  Do 
not  pray  just  because  it  is  the  proper  thing  to  do,  but 
pray  because  our  God  hears  and  answers  prayer,  and 
because  this  heavy-laden  sin-cursed  world  needs  the 
blessings  he  is  both  able  and  willing  to  send. 

*  * 

Music.  —  The  following  are  some  of  the  most  fa- 
miliar Gospel  Hymns  that  are  especially  adapted  for 
use  in  temperance  meetings  :  Dare  to  do  Right,  Yield 
fiot  to  Te?nptatiofi,  Dare  to  be  a  Dajiiel,  Throw-out 
the  Life-Li?ie,  Rescue  the  Perishing,  What  shall  the 
Harvest  be?  Why  not  To-7iight  f  Where  is  My  Boy 
To-night?  Have  You  sought  for  the  Sheep  that  have 
wandered  ?  Sin  no  more,  My  Soul  be  ofi  Thy  Guard 
See  also  the  "  White  Ribbon  Hymnal,'"  published  by 
the-W.  T.  P.  A.,  and  the  many  excellent  song-books 
published  by  the  National  Temperance  Society. 
"  Song  Leaflets  "  are  printed  by  the  W.  T.  P.  A.  for 
fifteen  cents  a  hundred;  and  "Temperance  Lesson 
Leaves  ''  (on  the  last  page  of  which  is  a  temperance 
hymn),  by  the  National  Temperance  Society  for  fifty 

cents  a  hundred. 

*  * 

Scripture  Lessons.  —  Make  the  Scripture  lesson 
a  feature  of  the  programme.  Use  the  Bible  as  the 
"sword   of  the   Spirit,"  the   "living   and   powerful 


WEAPONS   FOR   TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.       19 

word  of  God,"    There  is  a  great  promise  attached  to 

the  use  of  God's  word  in  Isaiah   55  :   11.     Claim  it. 

There  are  many  methods  of  using  Scripture,  many 

ways  of  presenting  Bible  truth.     Try  sometimes  one, 

sometimes  another. 

*  * 

I.  Single  Texts.  —  Sometimes  a  single  text,  fol- 
lowed by  a  few  pointed  remarks,  will  be  an  arrow 
sinking  deep  into  some  heart,  and  have  greater  power 
than  a  whole  chapter  read  without  any  special  aim. 

Exa)iiples, — "  Woe  unto  him  that  giveth  his  neigh- 
bor drink,  that  puttest  thy  bottle  to  him,  and  makest 
him  drunken.'"  {Hab.  2  :  15.)  We  usually  apply  this 
to  saloon-keepers,  and  all  who  make  a  business  of 
selling  liquor.  We  forget  that  it  means  all  who  give 
others  drink  :  physicians  who  prescribe  wines  and 
liquors  of  various  kinds  for  their  patients,  fathers  who 
allow  wine  on  their  tables,  using  it  themselves  and 
giving  it  to  their  children,  mothers  who  flavor  their 
sauces,  puddings,  and  mince-meat  with  brandy.  This 
text  should  be  carved  on  every  side-board,  printed 
on  the  title-page  of  every  cook-book,  and  engraved 
on  the  lid  of  every  medicine  chest. 

Or  this  :  "Be  not  among  wine  bibbers  ;  among 
riotous  eaters  of  flesh  ;  for  the  drunkard  and  glutton 
shall  come  to  poverty  ;  and  drowsiness  shall  clothe  a 
man  with  rags."  {Prov.  23  :  20,  21.)  Show  by  chart 
or  pyramid  how  vast  are  the  sums  our  nation  spends 
for  liquor  and  tobacco  in  comparison  with  other  ex- 
penditures. (Such  a  chart  may  be  purchased  from 
the  National  Temperance  Society.)     Show  by  work- 


20      WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       ' 

ing  out  a  problem  on  the  blackboard,  how  the  com- 
paratively small  sums  that  a  drinking  man  spends  for 
liquor  every  day  rapidly  count  up  into  large  amounts, 
and  how  in  return  he  has  nothing  to  show  for  it  but  a 
poverty-stricken  home,  a  diseased  body,  a  weakened 
mind,  and  perhaps  a  lost  soul.  (Such  a  problem  may 
be  found  in  the  leaflet,  "  How  a  Smoker  got  a  Home." 
Of  course  the  sums  here  named  are  for  tobacco,  but 
it  is  equally  true  for  liquor.)  Present  some  statistics 
(see  "  Facts  and  Figures,*'  p-47)  showing  how  the 
drunkard  does  come  to  poverty,  as  Solomon  says. 

Still  anotlier  text  that  can  be  so  used  is  this  :  "  Do 
th}'self  no  harm."  {Acts  i6:  28.)  Show  how  even 
moderate  drinking  ruins  a  man  physically,  mentally, 
spiritually. 

Read  Proverbs  23  :  29-32  in  this  way : 

Leader.  —  {The  Questions.')  "  Who  hath  woe? 
who  hath  sorrow?  who  hath  contentions?  who  hath 
babbling  ?  who  hath  wounds  without  cause  ?  who 
hath  redness  of  eyes?" 

Society.  —  (/y^d^  Aiiszuer.)  "They  that  tarry 
long  at  tlie  wine  :  they  that  go  to  seek  mixed  wine." 

Pastor. —  {The   Solemn   Exhortation.)     "Look 

notupon  the  wine  when  it  is  red,  when  it  giveth  his 

color  in  the  cup,  when  it  moveth  itself  aright.     At  the 

last  it  biteth  like  a  serpent  and  stingeth  like  an  adder." 

*  * 

The  story  of  the  Rechabites  {Jer.  35)  is  very  fas- 
cinating and  full  of  good  lessons.     It  is  especially 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       21 

nteresting  in  the  light  of  recent  discoveries  which 
claim  that  the  descendants  of  the  Rechabites  have 
been  found  in  Arabia,  proving  that  God  has  been 
faithful  to  these  promises  all  through  the  ages. 

*  * 

The  story  of  Daniel  and  his  companions  {Dan.  i) 
is  a  good  temperance,  lesson.  To  secure  attention 
and  rouse  interest,  let  the  leader  say,  "  I  am  going 
to  read  you  a  temperance  story.  It  is  a  story  of  four 
boys  about  fourteen  years  of  age  —  all  of  them  fine, 
manly  young  fellows,  each  of  them  a  prince.  They 
were  carried  away  captive  to  a  strange  country,  and 
given  wine  from  the  king's  table  ;  but  they  begged 
to  be  allowed  to  have  water  instead.  Who  were  they, 
and  where  did  they  live  ? "' 

*  * 

Bible  Readings.  —  Let  the  leader  select  a  number 
of  passages,  and  ask  different  persons  to  read  them 
when  called  for. 

Examples. — Temperance  Teachings  of  Solomon, 
the  Wise  Man  —  Proverbs  4:17;  20  :i;  21:17; 
23  :  20,  21  ;  23  :  29,  30,  31 ,  32.  {Proverbs  31  :  4-7  is 
not  given  by  Solomon,  but  is  part  of  the  "  words  of 
King  Lemuel,  the  prophecy  that  his  mother  taught 
him.'") 

Warnings  from  Isaiah,  the  Temperance  Prophet 
—  Isaiah  5:11,12;  5:22;  24  :  9  ;  28  :  i ,  3  ;  28  :  7  ; 
56;  12. 

Temperance  Teachings  of  Paul  the  Apostle  —  Ro- 
mans   14:21;   15:1.       I    Corinthia7is    5:11;  6 :  10. 


22   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

Galaiians  5:19-21.     Ephesians   5:18.     i    Timothy 
3:3;  3:8.      Titus  1:7,8;  2:2,3. 


Bible  Testings.  —  a.  Call  for  a  list  of  the  most 
noted  total  abstainers  of  the  Bible  (Samson,  Samuel, 
John  the  Baptist,  etc.).  As  the  names  are  given, 
write  them  upon  the  blackboard,  and  spend  a  little 
time  discussing  the  work  and  character  of  each  one. 

b.  Either  with  or  without  previous  notice  call  on 
the  audience  to  give  strong  temperance  texts  from 
the  Bible.  If  notice  is  given  beforehand,  ask  each 
one  to  give  the  text  that  he  considers  the  strongest 
temperance  text  in  the  Word  of  God,  and  tell  why 
he  so  considers  it. 

c.  Make  a  list  of  the  most  familiar  texts  on  the 
subject  of  temperance.  Write  these  texts  on  slips  of 
paper,  without  the  refet'ence^  and  distribute  them. 
Call  for  them  by  number,  and  after  each  one  is  read, 
ask  the  audience  to  name  the  book  in  which  the  text 
is  found.  Do  not  use  too  many  texts  ;  ten  or  twelve 
are  sufficient. 

Texts.  —  i.  "They  shall  not  drink  wine  with  a 
song ;  strong  drink  shall  be  bitter  to  them  that  drink 
it."     (/r^.  24:9.) 

2.  "Be  not  drunk  with  wine  wherein  is  excess; 
but  be  filled  with  the  Spirit."     ^Eph.  5:18.) 

3.  "  For  the  drunkard  and  the  glutton  shall  come 
to  poverty ;  and  drowsiness  shall  clothe  a  man  with 
rags."     (/y^^T/.  23  :  21.) 

4.  "  Now  therefore  beware,  I  pray  thee,  and  drink 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   23 

not  wine  nor  strong  drink,  and  eat  not  any  unclean 
thing/'     {Judges  13:4.) 

5.  "Wine  is  a  mocker,  strong  drink  is  raging; 
and  whosoever  is  deceived  thereby  is  not  wise." 
{Prov.  20  :  I.) 

6.  "It  is  good  neither  to  eat  flesh,  nor  to  drink 
wine,  nor  anything  whereby  thy  brother  stumbleth. 
or  is  offended,  or  is  made  weak.""     {Rom.  14:  21.) 

7.  "  Woe  unto  them  that  are  mighty  to  drink  wine, 
and  men  of  strength  to  mingle  strong  drink."  {/sa. 
5:22.) 

8.  "  Be  not  among  wine  bibbers."     {Prov.  2t,:  20.) 

9.  "  Not  given  to  wine."     (i  Ttm.  3  :  3.) 

10.  "Woe  unto  them  that  rise  up  early  in  the 
morning,  that  they  may  follow  strong  drink  ;  that 
continue  until  night,  until  wine  inflame  them." 
{/sa.   5  :  II.) 

11.  "Woe  unto  him  that  giveth  his  neighbor 
drink,  that  puttest  thy  bottle  to  him,  and  makest 
him  drunken  also."     {Hab.  2:  15.) 

12.  "Neither  thieves,  nor  covetous,  nor  drunk- 
ards, nor  revilers,  nor  extortioners,  shall  inherit 
the  kingdom  of  God."     (i  Cor.  6:  10.) 


For  other  help  in  the  Scripture  lessons  see  "  Tem- 
perance Lesson  Leaves  ;  "  "  Temperance  Bible  Stud- 
ies," by  F.  N.  Peloubet,  D.D.  ;  "  The  Sunday-school 
Temperance  Catechism,"  by  Julia  Colman ;  and 
"Temperance  Hand  Book  for  Speakers  and  Work- 
ers," by  Julia  Colman ;  all  published  by  the  National 


2  4   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

Temperance    Society.     See  also  the  "  Bible   Read- 
ings," published  by  the  W.  T.  P.  A. 


"  So  shall  my  word  be  that  goeth  forth  out  of  my 
mouth  ;  it  shall  not  return  unto  me  void,  but  it  shall 
accomplish  that  which  I  please,  and  it  shall  prosper 
in  the  thing  whereto  I  sent  it."     (^Isa.  55  :  11.) 


TEMPERANCE    BUDGETS. 

Budgets  of  temperance  news  may  be  made  very 
bright  and  instructive.  Such  a  budget  may  be  pub- 
lished as  a  feature  of  one  single  programme,  or  it 
may  be  published  many  times,  one  number  at  each 
temperance  meeting.  Call  it  by  any  suitable  name, 
such  as  "  Temperance  Times,"  "  Temperance  Ad- 
vocate," "The  Watchman,"  "The  Bulletin,"  etc. 
Make  it  as  attractive  as  possible  in  every  way.  Write 
it  (if  possible,  typewrite  it)  on  any  convenient  size 
of  paper,  and  make  covers  of  heavy  cardboard,  tied 
with  ribbon,  and  decorated  in  either  pen  and  ink  or 
water-colors  by  any  member  of  the  society  willing  to 
consecrate  a  little  artistic  talent. 

These  budgets  may  be  prepared  in  several  different 
ways. 

I.  Appoint  two  editors,  whose  duty  shall  be  to 
prepare  the  Budget  and  read  it.  In  this  case  let 
the  editors  each  take  two  turns  in  reading  to  avoid 
monotony. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   2; 


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26   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

2.  Appoint  one  person  editor,  and  let  him  call  on 
different  members  for  contributions.  In  reading  let 
each  contributor  read  his  own  production,  the  editor 
announcing  the  title,  and  introducing  the  author. 

3.  Some  one  class  in  the  Sunday-School,  or  the 
temperance  committee  in  the  young  people's  society 
may  be  asked  to  prepare  a  budget,  the  teacher  of 
the  class,  or  chairman  of  the  committee  acting  as 
editor. 

Each  budget  should  have  one  or  more  short  edi- 
torials, a  poem,  several  good  articles,  news  about 
temperance,  a  short  story,  a  column  of  short  items, 
advertisements,  and  any  novel  and  unique  features 
the  editors  are  bright  enough  to  introduce.  The  ta" 
bles  of  contents  for  four  such  budgets  are  given  in  the 
following  pages.  If  you  cannot  secure  the  material 
called  for,  substitute  something  else.  Material  for  pre- 
paring budgets  may  be  found  in  the  "  Encyclopaedia 
of  Temperance  and  Prohibition,*'  Reid's  "  Temper- 
ance Encyclopaedia,""  temperance  books,  biographies, 
pamphlets,  leaflets,  etc.  Files  of  temperance  papers 
are  invaluable,  containing  a  great  variety  of  material. 
Send  to  the  Woman's  Temperance  Publication  As- 
sociation, The  Temple,  Chicago,  111. ;  to  National 
Temperance  Society  and  Publication  House,  58  Reade 
Street,  New  York  City;  and  to  Miss  Julia  Colman, 
47  Bible  House,  New  York  City,  for  catalogues  of 
their  publications.  Illustrating  the  budget  with  a 
few  appropriate  pictures  cut  and  pasted  on  its  pages, 
will  add  to  its  interest  and  value. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   2/ 


E^t  SCrmprranrr  ^tibocatr* 

March,  1897. 

TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 

1. 

Editorials. 

o_ 

What  is  Going  on  in  the  World,  from  a 

Temperance  Standpoint. 

3. 

People  You  Should  Know  —  Lady  Henry- 

Somerset.  '^ 

4. 

Alcohol  —  Is  it  '<Aqua  Vitae,"  or  <'Aqua 

Mortis?"-^ 

5. 

Is  It  Nothing  to  You?     (Poem.)^ 

6. 

A  $200,000  Glass  of  Beer.^ 

7. 

The  Story  of  Adam  Ayles.^ 

8. 

Temperance    Teachings    of    the    "  Wise 

Man." 

9. 

The  Law  of  Habit./ 

10. 

A  Chapter  of  Woes. 

11. 

The  Safety  of  the  Never-Begin-er. 

12. 

Advertisements. 

a.    See  "Sketches  of  Temperance  Workers,"  p.  31. 

3.    See  Guthrie's  Temperance  Physiology. 

c,  d,  and  f.  Leaflets.  Woman's  Temperance  Publication  Asso- 
ciation. 

e.  Leaflet,  "  The  Champion  Sledger."  National  Temperance 
Society. 


28       WEAPONS    FOR    TE^tPERANXE    WARFARE. 


Ei}t  Etm^txmitt  Sitiboratc* 

June,  1897. 

TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 

1. 

Editorials. 

2 

From  Our  Watch-Tower. 

3. 

People   You    Should    Know  —  Hon.    Neal 

Dow.^ 

4. 

Alcohol  and  the  Cook-Book. 

5. 

Farmer  Jonathan's  Decision  on  the  Cider 

Question.      (Poem.)'^ 

6. 

Does  Alcohol  Help  us  to  Endure  Cold  ?  ^ 

7. 

'<  Smoke    Stack  "    and    ''  Beer    Bottle  " 

Escorts. 

8. 

Temperance  Testimonies  from  some  Great 

Men.^ 

9. 

Jamaica  Ginger.^ 

10. 

Alcohol  the  Foe  of  Missions./ 

11. 

What  Shall  We  Drink? 

12. 

Turn  on  the  Light.  ^ 

a.    See  "  Sketches  of  Temperance  Workers,"  p.  31. 
d  and  e.    Leaflets.     National  Temperance  Society. 

c.  Guthrie's  Tei)ipera7ice  Physiology-     Leaflets,"  Ross,  the  Arciic 
Explorer,"  and  "Alcohol  and  Cold."    National  Temperance  Society. 

d.  See  "Quotations,"  p.  40,  and  Temperance  Shot  and  Shell. 

f.  "Drink  Traffic  and  Foreign  Missions,"  Vol.  IL,   Temperance 
in  all  Natio/ts. 

g.  Leaflet.     Woman's  Temperance  Publishing  Association. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   29 


E\}t  STcmprranrc  ^ItibDcate. 

September,  1897. 

TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 

1. 

Editorials. 

0 

Behold  What  Rum  hath  Wrought! 

3. 

Our  Mysterious  Enemy  Unveiled.'* 

4. 

Two  Pictures.^ 

5. 

Pen  Pictures  of  some  Noted  Abstainers.^ 

6. 

A  Bit  of  Advice  from  Robert  J.  Burdette.^ 

'^• 

Temperance    Testimony    of   Explorers    in 
both  Torrid  and  Frigid  Zones. 

8. 

Which  Shall  It  Be?     (Poem.)/ 

9. 

Freedom  or  Slavery  ?^ 

10. 

Shall  Alcohol  have  a  Place  in  Our  Medi- 
cine Chests? 

11. 

What  It  Costs.  ^^ 

12. 

Moderate  Drinking  Dangerous. 

a.  The  Teinperance  Handhookfor  Speakers  and  Workers. 

b.  Leaflet.     "  The  Drinker's  Thermometer,"  p.  6.     W.  T.  P.  A. 

c.  Eficyclopcedia  of  Teinperatice  and  Prohibitio7i. 

d.  See  item,  "  Sharp-shooting,"  p.  35. 

e.  Guthrie's  Temperance  Physiology. 
/,  g,  and  h.    Leaflets.    W.  T.  P.  A. 


30   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 


E\}t  Ennperance  Sltibocate. 

December,  1897. 

TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 

1. 

Editorials. 

2. 

Since  Our  Last  Issue. 

3. 

People  You  Ought  to  Know  —  Frances  E. 
Willard. « 

4. 

What  I  Lost  by  Signing  the  Pledge.^ 

5. 

Some  Facts  and  Figures. 

6. 

Temperance  in  the  Turkish  Empire.*^ 

7. 

A  Sermon  on  Malt.^ 

8. 

Alcohol,  the  Great  Life-Destroyer. 

9. 

What  Can  You  and  I  do  About  It? 

10. 

How  John  Stafford  Bought  His  Home. 

11. 

How  About  Root  Beer?^ 

12. 

Ted's  Christmas.     (A  Poem.) 

a.  Glimpses  of  Fifty  Years. 

b.  See  item  5,  "  Sharp-shooting,"  p.  35. 

c.  Temperance  in  ail  Natiofis,  and  Encyclopaedia  of  TemPeranci 
and  Prohibition. 

d.  Leaflet,  "  The  Student's  Trick,"  National  Temperance  Society 

e.  Leaflets,  "The  Root  Beer  Fraud  "  and  "The  Alcohol  in  Root 
Beer."     National  Temperance  Society. 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       3 1 

SKETCHES  OF  NOTED  TEMPERANCE 
WORKERS. 


'■'■Lives  of  great  men  all  remmd  us 
VV^e  can  make  our  lives  sublime! 


Carlyle  says,  "  Great  men,  taken  up  in  any  way, 
are  profitable  company.  We  cannot  look,  however 
imperfectly,  upon  a  great  man,  without  gaining  some- 
thing by  him."  Studying  truly  noble  lives  inspires 
in  us  a  desire  to  imitate  them,  fills  us  with  love  and 
interest  for  the  things  they  loved,  and  begets  in  us  a 
desire  to  work  as  they  have  worked.  Such  study  in 
temperance  lines  cannot  fail  to  be  followed  by  good 
results. 

A  plan  that  may,  with  profit,  run-through  a  series  of 
temperance  meetings,  is  to  prepare  a  sketch  of  noted 
temperance  workers.  Write  each  sketch  on  a  large 
sheet  of  heavy  white  cardboard,  about  twenty  by 
twenty-seven  inches,  and  divide  it  into  two,  three,  or 
four  columns,  as  the  writer  desires.  Decorate  the 
cardboard  in  any  pleasing  manner,  and  print  the 
name  of  the  subject  of  the  sketch  across  the  top.  If 
possible,  secure  a  picture  of  him  (or  her),  and  paste 
it  near  the  top  of  the  left-hand  column. 

These  pictures  may  be  found  in  papers  or  maga- 
zines ;  if  you  cut  around  the  outline  of  the  picture, 
leaving  none  of  the  original  background  around  it, 
and  paste  it   carefully  on  the  cardboard,  it  will  be 


32       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANXE    WARFARE. 


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WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.  ^;^ 

almost  impossible  to  tell  that  it  has  not  been  printed 
there. 

Pictures  of  the  home,  the  workshop,  etc.,  of  the 
temperance  worker,  together  with  his  (or  her)  au- 
tograph, might  be  cut  and  pasted  in  a  similar  man- 
ner, giving  added  interest  to  the  sketch.  Finish  the 
whole  with  a  narrow  gilt  moulding  across  the  top 
and  bottom,  and  tie  ribbons  by  w^hich  to  hang  it. 

The  lives  of  the  following  men  and  women,  as  well 
as  many  others,  deserve  such  study  :  — 

Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,«  the  man  who,  "  in  this  tem- 
perance war  for  independence,  fired  the  opening 
'shots  heard  'round  the  world.'" 

John  B.  Gough,'^  the  "prince  of  platform  orators,"' 
the  "greatest  leader  of  the  world's  greatest  reform.*' 

Frances  E.  Willard,'^'  the  "  best-loved  woman  in 
the  world."' 

Lady  Henry  Somerset,^  President  of  the  British 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

Hon.  Neal  Dow,'?  that  "grand  old  temperance 
hero,"  the  originator  of  the  "  Maine  Law.'" 

Father  Mathew,/the  Apostle  of  Temperance. 

Francis  Murphy,.^  founder  of  the  Blue  Ribbon 
Movement. 

REFERENCES. 

a.  See  any  encyclopaedia ;  T/ze  Te7npera7ice  Century,  by  Dr. 
Crafts;   and  Guthrie's    Tempera7ice  Physiology. 

b.  Memorial  number  of  The  Uiiiofi  Signal,  April  S,  iSS6;  Plat- 
form Echoes ;  Stmlight  attd  Sltadow,  or,  Glea7iings  /ro77i  My  L  i/e 
U  'ork  ;  A  utobiograpy  a7id  Personal  Recollect  iofis  of  John  B.  Gough  ; 
"  Make  Your  Record  Clean  "  (a  tract  with  a  picture  of  Gough). 

c.  Gliitipses   of  Fify   Years   (an   autobiography   of    Frances    E. 


34       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

Willard);  "Frances  E.  Willard,"  by  Lady  Henry  Somerset  (this 
article  is  illustrated  by  a  large  number  of  admirable  pictures),  TJie 
Oiitlook,  issue  of  June  27,  1896. 

d.  The  Golden  Rule  of  April  7,  1S92,  and  The  Outlook  for  June 
27,  1896,  contain  pictures  of  Lady  Henry,  Eastnor  Castle  and  the 
Priory,  Reigate,  two  of  her  homes. 

e.^  See  any  encyclopsedia ;  EncycloptEdia  of  Temperance  and  Pro- 
hibition. TJie  Golden  Ride,  issue  of  June  16,  1892,  contains  a  short 
sketch  and  a  picture  of  Neal  Dow. 

_f.    See  Eficycloptzdia  of  Temperance  and  Prohibitioti. 

g.    See  TJie  Bhie  Ribbon,  by  Kimball. 


OUR    FOREIGN    MAIL. 

Appoint  one  or  more  "  Round  the  World  Temper- 
ance Missionaries  "^  to  make  a  journey  around  the 
world  (imaginary,  of  course),  and  send  letters  to  the 
meetings  about  the  drinking  customs  of  foreign  coun- 
tries, and  the  progress  of  the  temperance  movement. 
Make  these  letters  seem  as  real  as  possible  by  en- 
closing them  in  large  envelopes,  properly  addressed 
to  the  secretary  of  the  society,  and  seal  them.     Can- 


Sec.    Y.  P.   S.    C.  E., 

First  Fr-esbyte?'ian  C/uirch, 

SPRINGFIELD,  OHIO, 
Froin  Tzirkey.  U.    S.   A. 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       35 

celled  stamps  from  the  country  from  which  the  letter 
is  supposed  to  have  come  can  easily  be  obtained; 
placed  in  proper  position  on  the  envelope,  they  will 
add  to  the  interest.  The  letters  should  be  as  bright 
as  possible  and  as  true  to  fact.  Many  facts  about 
temperance  customs,  and  also  about  the  great  hin- 
drance the  liquor  traffic  is  to  missions,  can  be  viv- 
idly impressed  in  this  way. 

REFERENCES. 

Booklets.  —  "  The  Liquor  Traffic  in  Western  Africa  ;  "  "  Round 
the  World  with  the  White  Ribbon  ;  "  "Africa  and  the  Drink  Trade  ;  " 
"A  Tour  Around  the  World  Among  the  Temperance  Brownies." 

Books.  —  Qiwtatiofis  onDrhik  and  JMissiofis,  see  pp.  46,  47;  Tem^ 
perance  Shot  afid  Shell ;  Encyclopcedia  of  Tetnperance  and  Prohibi- 
tion ;   Teinpera7ice  in  A II  Nations. 


SHARP-SHOOTING. 

Select  a  number  of  items,  some  very  short,  others 
longer.  Copy  them  on  cards  and  number  them.  To 
make  the  exercise  effective,  let  it  be  just  what  the 
name  suggests,  —  sharp-shooting.  Call  the  items 
"  shot,"  and  those  who  take  part  "  sharp-shooters."" 
Distributing  the  shot  several  days  before  the  meet- 
ing may  have  the  eifect  of  bringing  some  to  the  meet- 
ing who  would  not  otherwise  come  and  take  part :  but 
as  some  one  is  almost  sure  to  be  absent,  keep  a  du- 
plicate of  each  shot  and  the  name  of  the  one  asked 
to  read  it.  Carry  the  duplicate  shot  and  the  list  of 
names  to  the  meeting,  and  if  any  one  is   missing, 


36       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

hand  his  shot  to  some  one  else.     Call  for  the  items 
in  quick  succession,  by  number. 

1.  A  Massachusetts  manufacturer,  in  payment  of 
his  seven  hundred  operatives,  gave  each  one  a  crisp, 
new  ten-dollar  bill  on  Saturday  night.  Each  bill  was 
marked  so  that  it  could  be  recognized.  By  the  Tues- 
day following, /c*?//-  Jnindred  and  ten  of  these  seven 
hundred  bills  had  been  deposited  in  the  banks  by 
saloon-keepers. 

2.  The  nation's  drink  bill  for  1895,  —  $962,192,854. 

3.  Time  is  making  great  changes  in  temperance. 
About  the  time  Columbus  set  out  on  his  voyage  of 
discovery,  social  custom  in  England  did  not  allow 
the  drinking  of  water,  except  as  a  penance.  There 
was  also  a  time  when  one  might  be  a  member  of  a 
temperance  society,  in  good  standing,  on  a  pledge 
not  to  drink  more  than  sixteen  glasses  of  wine  a 
day! 

4.  Song  of  the  grape  :  — 

'•  Eat  me,  and  I  am  food ; 
Drink  me,  and  I  am  poison." 

5.  The  following  speech  was  made  at  a  temper- 
ance meeting  by  a  reformed  drunkard  :  — 

"  I  have  been  thinking  since  I  came  into  the  meet- 
ing to-night  about  the  losses  I  have  met  with  since  I 
signed  the  temperance  pledge.  I  tell  you  there  is 
not  a  man  in  the  society  that  has  lost  more  by  stop- 
ping drink  than  I  have.  Wait  a  bit  till  I  tell  you 
what  I  mean.  There  was  a  nice  job  of  work  to  be 
done  in  the  shop  to-day,  and  the  boss  called  for  me. 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       37 

'  Give  it  to  Law,'  says  he  ;  '  he's  the  best  hand  in  the 
shop/ 

"Well,  I  told  my  wife  at  supper-time,  and  she 
says,  '  Why,  Laurie,  he  used  to  call  you  the  worst ! 
You've  lost  your  bad  name,  have  n't  you?' 

"  '  That's  a  fact,  wife,'  say  I  ;  '  and  it  't  ain't  all  I  've 
lost  in  the  last  six  months,  either.  I  had  poverty  and 
wretchedness,  and  I  've  lost  them.  I  had  an  old  rag- 
ged coat  and  a  shockin'  bad  hat,  and  some  waterproof 
boots  that  let  the  wet  out  at  the  toes  as  fast  as  they 
took  it  in  at  the  heels.  I  've  lost  them.  I  had  a  red 
face  and  a  trembling  hand,  and  a  pair  of  shaky  legs 
that  gave  me  an  awful  tumble  now  and  then.  I  had 
a  habit  of  cursing  and  swearing,  and  I  've  got  rid  of 
that.  I  had  an  aching  head  and  a  heavy  heart,  and, 
worse  than  all  the  rest,  a  guilty  conscience.  I  thank 
God  I  've-lost  them  all ! ' 

"Then  I  told  my  wife  what  she  had  lost.  'You 
had  an  old  ragged  gown,  Mary,'  say  I,  '  and  you  had 
trouble  and  sorrow,  and  a  poor  wretched  home  and 
plenty  of  heartaches,  for  you  had  a  miserable  drunk- 
ard for  a  husband.  Mary,  Mary!  Thank  the  Lord 
for  all  that  you  and  I  have  lost  since  I  signed  the 
Good  Samaritan  Pledge  ! '  " 

6.  A  professional  baseball  player  said  that  it  would 
be  worth  $500  off  his  salary  to  be  seen  going  into 
a  saloon. 

7.  A  saloon  can  no  more  be  run  without  using 
up  boys,  than  a  flour-mill  without  wheat,  or  a  saw- 
mill without  logs.  The  only  question  is,  "  Whose 
boys  ? " 


38   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

8.  Twenty-five  snakes  running  through  the  streets, 
—  free  whiskey. 

Box  up  the  twenty-five  snakes,  and,  by  the  author- 
ity of  the  court,  bore  twenty-five  holes  in  the  box,  — 
low  license. 

Stop  up  ten  holes  so  that  the  snakes  can  all  get  out 
through  the  other  fifteen  holes,  —  high  license. 

Drive  the  snakes  to  the  next  town,  —  local  option. 

Kill  the  snakes,  —  prohibition. 

9.  Spurgeon  says,  "Grape-juice  has  killed  more 
than  grape-shot." 

10.  The  following  advertisement  appeared  in  a 
daily  paper :  — 

"Wanted  —  A  nice  cottage  and  grounds  in  ex- 
change for  a  choice  lot  of  liquors." 

Thousands  of  drinking  men  have  made  just  such 
an  exchange. 

11.  My  homeless  friend,  with  the  chromatic  nose, 
while  you  are  stirring  up  the  sugar  in  a  ten-cent  glass 
of  gin,  let  me  give  you  a  fact  to  wash  down  with  it. 
You  say  you  have  longed  for  years  for  the  free,  inde- 
pendent life  of  the  farmer,  but  could  never  get  money 
enough  together  to  buy  the  farm. 

But  this  is  just  where  you  are  mistaken.  For  sev- 
eral years  you  have  been  drinking  a  good  improved 
farm  at  the  rate  of  100  square  feet  at  a  gulp. 

If  you  doubt  this  statement,  just  figure  it  out  for 
yourself.  An  acre  of  land  contains  43,560  square 
feet.  Estimating,  for  convenience,  the  land  to  be 
worth  $43.56  per  acre,  you  will  see  that  it  brings  the 
land  to  just  one  mill  per  square  foot,  one  cent  for  ten 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   39 

square  feet,  ten  cents  for  100  square  feet.  Now  pour 
down  that  fiery  dose,  and  imagine  you  are  swallowing 
a  strawberry  patch  !  Call  in  five  of  your  friends,  and 
have  them  help  you  gulp  down  a  500-foot  garden!  Get 
on  a  prolonged  spree  some  day,  and  see  how  long  a 
time  it  takes  you  to  swallow  a  pasture  big  enough  to 
feed  a  cow  !  Put  down  that  glass  of  gin  ;  there's  dirt 
in  it,  —  100  square  feet  of  good  rich  dirt,  worth  $43.56 
per  acre.  —  Robert  J.  Burdette. 

12.  A  wineglass  is  never  right  side  up  until  it  is 
upside  down. 

13.  An  old  colored  man  who  addressed  a  temper- 
ance meeting  said :  — 

"  When  I  sees  a  man  going  home  wid  a  gallon  of 
whiskey  and  a  half-pound  of  meat,  dat's  tempYance 
lecture  nuff  for  me  ;  and  I  sees  it  ebery  day.  I  knows 
dat  eberyting  in  his  house  is  on  de  same  scale, — 
gallon  of  misery  to  ebery  half-pound  of  comfort." 

14.  This  is  how  some  one  figures  it  out :  — 
From  a  bushel  of  corn  a  distiller  gets  four  gallons 

of  v;hiskey  which  retails  at  $16.00:  the  government 
gets  $3.60  ;  the  farmer  who  raised  the  corn  gets  forty 
cents  ;  the  railroad  gets  $1.00 :  the  manufacturer  gets 
$4.00  ;  the  retailer  gets  $7.00  ;  and  the  consumer  gets, 
—  drimk ! 

15.  General  Von  Moltke  said,  "  I,  myself,  abstain 
altogether  from  alcohol.  .  .  .  Certainly  one  of  the 
greatest  enemies  of  Germany  is  the  misuse  of  it." 

16.  Madame  Patti  says  if  a  young  woman  adopts 
the  calling  of  professional  singer,  and  really  means  to 
succeed,  she  must  let  wine  alone,  as  it  almost  invari- 


40       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

ably  ruins  the  voice.     "  For  myself,"  says  the  prima 
donna,  "  I  never  touch  wine." 

17.  A  law  recently  passed  in  Denmark  provides 
that  all  drunken  persons  shall  be  taken  home  in  car- 
riages at  the  expense  of  the  landlord  who  sold  them 
the  last  glass. 

18.  In  1890  American  beer-makers  produced  seven 
million  barrels  of  beer  and  oceans  of  tears. 

19.  Cruikshank,  the  artist,  offered  ^100  for  proof 
of  a  violent  crime  committed  by  a  total  abstainer ; 
and  the  money  remains  unclaimed  to  this  day. 

20.  "Touch  not;  taste  not;  handle  not,"     (G?/. 

2:21.)     This  may  be  wisely  applied  to  the  use  of  all 

liquors. 

*  *  * 

QUOTATIONS. 

Temperance  quotations  may  be  used  in  many  dif- 
ferent ways. 

a.  Copy  them  on  slips  of  paper  and  number  them. 
Distribute  them  at  the  meeting,  and  call  for  them  by 
number,  calling  the  exercise  "  Temperance  Quota- 
tions "  on  the  programme. 

b.  Ask  each  member  to  be  prepared  to  give  a 
^temperance  quotation  in  answer  to  his  name  at  roll- 
call. 

c.  Write  the  quotations  on  name-cards,  and  use 
them  at  temperance  socials.  Make  the  cards  dainty 
and  pretty  enough  to  be  carried  away  as  souvenirs. 

d.  Read  the  quotations  as  a  test  exercise,  not  giving 
the  authors,  but  asking  those  present  to  give  them. 


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1.  "  Oh,  thou  invincible  spirit  of  wine,  if  thou  hast 
no  name  to  be  known  by,  let  us  call  thee  —  devil." 

—  Shakespeare. 

2.  •'  Some  by  violent  stroke  shall  die, 

By  fire,  flood,  famine  ;  by  intemperance  more." 

Milton. 

3.  "  All  the  crimes  of  earth  do  not  destroy  so 
many  of  the  human  race,  nor  alienate  so  much  prop- 
erty."—  Lord  Bacon. 

4.  "  Liquor-selling  is  one  of  the  most  criminal 
methods  of  assassination  for  money  ever  adopted  by 
the  bravoes  of  any  age  or  country."  —  Ruskin. 

5.  '•  Temperance  in  all  things,  especially  wine 
and  words."  —  Louisa  ^l.  Alcott. 

6.  "  There  is  a  devil  in  every  berry  of  the  grape." 

—  Kora)i . 

7.  "  There  is  a  great  fault  in  wine  ;  it  first  trips  up 
the  feet,  it  is  a  cunning  wrestler."  —  Plautus. 

8.  "  Call  things  by  their  names.  .  .  .  Glass  of 
brandy  and  water  I  That  is  the  current,  but  not  ap- 
propriate name  ;  ask  for  a  glass  of  liquid  fire  and 
distilled  damnation."  —  Robert  Hall. 

9.  "Wine  has  drowned  more  than  the  sea."  — 
PuBLius  Syrus. 

10.  "■  It  is  all  nonsense  to  talk  about  not  being 
able  to  work  without  ale  and  cider  and  fermented 
liquors.  Do  lions  and  cart-horses  drink  ale?"  — 
Sydney  Smith. 

'II.    "The  smaller  the  drink,  the  clearer  the  head." 

—  William  Penn. 

12.    "  Wine  often  turns  the  good-natured  man  into 


42   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

an  idiot,  and  the  choleric  into  an  assassin.''  —  Addi- 
son. 

13- 
"  O  madness  to  think  use  of  strongest  wines, 
And  strongest  drinks  our  chief  support  of  health, 
When  God,  with  these  forbidden,  made  choice  to  rear 
His  mighty  champion,  strong  above  compare. 
Whose  drink  was  only  from  the  liquid  brook.'' 

—  Milton,  Sa}}ison  Agonistes. 

14.  "  He  who  would  keep  himself  to  himself 
should  imitate  dumb  animals  and  drink  water."  — 
Bulwer-Lytton. 

15.  "Temperance  puts  wood  on  the  fire,  meal  in 
the  barrel,  flour  in  the  tub,  money  in  the  purse, 
credit  in  the  country,  contentment  in  the  house, 
clothes  on  the  back,  and  vigor  in  the  body." —  Ben- 
jamin Franklin. 

16.  "  Grape-juice  has  killed  more  than  grape- 
shot."  —  Spurgeon. 

17.  "  If  temperance  prevails,  then  education  can 
prevail ;  if  temperance  fails,  then  education  must 
fail."  —  Horace  Mann. 

18.  "  Every  moderate  drinker  could  abandon  the 
cup  if  he  would;  every  inebriate  would  if  he  could." 
—  John  B.  Gough. 

19.  "  Drink  not  liquors  that  intoxicate  and  disturb 
the  reason." — Buddha. 

20. 
'*  Inflaming  wine,  pernicious  to  mankind. 
Unnerves  the  limbs  and  dulls  the  noble  mind." 

—  Homer. 


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21. 

"Memory  confused,  and  interrupted  thought, 
Death's  harbingers,  lie  latent  in  the  draught ; 
And  in  the  flowers  that  wreathe  the  sparkling  bowl 
Fell  adders  hiss,  and  poisonous  serpents  roll." 

—  Prior. 
22. 
"  Freighted  with  love  our  temperance  ship 
Around  the  world  shall  sail ; 
Take  heart  and  hope,  dear  mariners  ; 
God's  errands  never  fail.''  —  Whittier. 

23.  "  Surely  wine  and  lots  are  an  abomination,  a 
snare  of  Satan  ;  therefore  avoid  them."^ —  Mohammed. 

24.  "  Men  dread  cholera,  the  yellow  fever,  the 
smallpox,  and  take  expensive  precaution  against 
them,  while  the  ravages  of  all  of  them  in  a  year  do 
not  produce  the  mischief  that  intemperance  does  in  a 
month."'  —  John  G.  Holland. 

25.  "  Beer  is  very  injurious  to  health  and  destruc- 
tive of  life." —  Kant. 

26.  "I  cannot  consent,  as  your  Queen,  to  take 
revenue  from  that  which  destroys  the  bodies  and 
souls  of  my  subjects.'  — Queen  of  Madagascar. 

27.  "  If  ever  '  wine  is  a  mocker,'  it  is  when  it 
dons  the  physician's  cloak,  and  professes  infallibility 
to  cure."  —  John  Guthrie,  D.D. 

28.  "  Nature  never  forms  spirituous  liquors  :  she 
rots  the  grape  upon  the  branch,  but  it  is  art  which 
converts  the  juice  into  wine."  —  Chaptal. 

29.  "  Many  a  time  has  a  glass  of  whiskey  wrecked 
a  ship."  —  Captain  of  a  Great  Steamship  Line. 


44   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

30.  "  Drunkenness  is  a  flattering  devil,  a  sweet 
poison,  a  pleasant  sin,  which  whosoever  hath,  hath 
not  himself;  which  whosoever  doth  commit,  commit- 
teth  not  a  single  sin,  but  becomes  the  centre  and 
slave  of  all  manner  of  sin."  —  St.  Augustine. 

31.  "  Where  will  we  find  a  sermon  strong  enough 
.  .  .  to  rescue  us  from  this  Drink  Devil.'"'  —  Luther. 

32.  "  Wine  bringeth  forth  three  grapes:  the  first 
of  pleasure,  the  second  of  drunkenness,  the  third  of 
sorrow."  —  Anacharsis  the  Scythian,  500  b.c. 

33.  "  The  art  of  extracting  alcoholic  liquors  by 
distillation  is  the  greatest  crime  ever  inflicted  on 
human  nature."  —  Dr.  Paris. 

34.  "  Is  there  no  middle  way  betwixt  total  absti- 
nence and  excess  which  kills  you?  For  your  sake, 
reader,  and  that  you  may  never  attain  to  my  expe- 
rience, with  pain  I  must  utter  the  dreadful  truth, 
there  is  none."  —  Charles  Lamb,  in  Cotifessiotis  of 
a  Drunkard. 

35.  "  This  demon,  like  death,  seems  to  love  a 
shining  mark.  From  every  profession  he  has  drawn 
his  victims."  —  Schuyler  Colfax,  ex-vice-pres- 

IDENT   OF    THE   UNITED    STATES. 

36.  "  Much  is  said  about  the  prudent  use  of  ardent 
spirits  ;  but  we  might  as  well  speak  of  the  prudent 
use  of  the  plague,  of  fire  handled  prudently  among 
powder,  of  poison  taken  prudently  every  day,  or  of 
vipers  and  serpents  introduced  prudently  into  our 
dwellings,  to  glide  about  as  a  matter  of  courtesy  to 
our  visitors  and  of  amusement  to  our  children."  — 
Lyman  Beecher. 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       45 

37.  "  We  suffer  more  year  by  year  from  intem- 
perance than  from  war,  pestilence,  and  famine  com- 
bined — ••  those  three  great  scourges  of  the  human 
family.''  —  Gladstone. 

38.  "  The  only  safe  way  of  drinking  .  .  .  is  '  to 
leave  off  before  you  begin.' ''  —  Canon  Farrar. 

39.  "  In  all  the  towns  and  countries  I  have  seen,  I 
never  saw  a  city  or  a  village  yet  whose  miseries  were 
not  in  proportion  to  its  public-houses." — Oliver 
Goldsmith. 

40.  "  Like  so  many  boxes  of  Pandora,  dram-shops 
are  hourly  scattering  plagues  of  every  kind  —  natu- 
ral, moral,  political."'  —  John  Adams. 

41.  "  Your  poor-houses  are  full,  and  your  courts 
and  prisons  are  filled  with  the  victims  of  this  infernal 
traffic,  and  your  homes  are  full  of  sorrow,  and  the 
hearts  of  your  wives  and  mothers  ;  and  yet  the  sys- 
tem is  tolerated,"  —  Father  Taylor. 

42.  "  Only  a  clear  brain  can  think  God's  thoughts 
after  him.  Only  a  steady  hand  can  glorify  the  divine 
Carpenter.  Only  a  heart  unhurried  by  artificial  stim- 
ulants can  be  loyal  in  its  love  to  Christ  and  human- 
ity."—  Frances  E.  Willard. 

43.  "  Let  no  man  say  that  he  is  safe  enough,  that 
he  has  no  occasion  to  take  the  pledge.  I  have  seen 
the  stars  of  heaven  fall,  and  the  cedars  of  Lebanon 
laid  low."  —  Father  Mathew. 

44.  "  Nothing  impresses  me  so  much  about  this 
temperance  reform  as  the  eternity  of  it."  —  Eliza- 
beth Stuart  Phelps. 


46   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

45.  "  Temperance  brings  blessings  in  both  hands, 

—  blessings  for  time  and  blessings  for  eternity."  — 
Father  Mathew. 

46.  "  I  feel  a  special  grudge  against  one  form  of 
Satan ;  I  have  a  special  desire  to  fight  that  .form 
whenever  and  wherever  I  can,  and  with  whatever 
weapons  I  can  get  hold  of  —  and  Satan  just  now 
means  Rum."  —  Mrs.  G.  R.  Alden  (Pansy). 

47.  "  The  fearful  devil-fish  crushing  a  fisherman 
in  its  long,  winding  arms,  and  sucking  his  life  blood 
from  his  mangled  body  and  limbs,  is  not  so  frightful 
an  assailant  as  this  deadly  but  insidious  enemy."  — 
Nasby. 

48.  "  I  never  use  it;  I  am  more  afraid  of  it  than 
of  Yankee  bullets."'  —  Stonewall  Jackson. 

49.  "Abstinency  is  favorable  both  to  the  head  and 
to  the  pocket."  —  Horace  Greeley. 

50.  "  O  that  men  should  put  an  enemy  in  their 
mouths,  to  steal  away  their  brains  !  "  —  Shake- 
speare. 

51.  "A  schoolboy  in  Australia  recently  put  the 
matter  tersely,  thus  :  '  I  abstain  from  liquor  because, 
if  I  wish  to  excel  as  a  cricketer,  Grace  says,  "Ab- 
stain;  "  as  a  walker,  Weston  says,  "Abstain;"  as 
an  oarsman,  Hanlon  says,  "Abstain;"  as  a  swim- 
mer, Webb  says,  "Abstain;  "  as  a  missionary,  Liv- 
ingstone says,  "Abstain;"  as  a  doctor,  Clark  says, 
"Abstain  ;  "  as  a  preacher,  Farrar  says,  "Abstain."  ' " 

—  Youth'' s  Co77ipa7iio7i. 

52.  "The  very  floor  of  one  of  the  bar-rooms,  in 
a  neighborhood  that  lately  resounded  with  a  cry  for 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   47 

bread  from  starving  workmen,  is  paved  with  silver 
dollars."  —  Jacob  A.  Riis,  in  How  The  Other  Half 
Lives. 

53.  "As  in  Africa  streams  intersect  the  forest  in 
every  direction,  so  the  gin-shop  stands  at  every  cor- 
ner, with  its  River  of  the  Water  of  Death  flowing 
seventeen  hours  out  of  the  twenty-four  for  the  de- 
struction of  the  people.  A  population  sodden  with 
drink,  steeped  in  vice,  eaten  up  by  every  social  and 
physical  malady,  these  are  the  denizens  of  Darkest 
England."  —  General  Booth,  in  Darkest  Etigland. 

54.  "  Children  should  be  taught  .  .  .  to  hate  rum 
as  intensely  as  Hannibal  was  taught  to  hate  Rome." 
—  Crafts. 

55.  "  For  thirty  years  I  have  been  a  temperance 
man,  and  I  am  too  old  to  change."  —  Abraham 
Lincoln. 


FACTS    AND   FIGURES. 


"  Facts  are  stubborn  things^ 


It  is  sometimes  advisable  to  present  a  formidable 
array  of  statistics.  When  this  is  desired,  select  a 
number  of  facts,  write  them  on  slips  of  paper,  and 
distribute  them.  Call  for  them  by  number  in  quick 
succession.  It  will  brighten  the  meeting,  and  fasten 
many  facts  in  the  mind. 

Call    the    exercise    "  Fifteen    Facts,"    "  Twenty 


48   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

Truths,""  "Thirty  Thoughts/'  or  "Forty  Facts  for 
Thinking  Christians,'*  according  to  the  number  used. 

1.  Allowing  eleven  feet  frontage  for  each,  the  sa- 
loons of  this  country  would  line  both  sides  of  a  street 
reaching  from  Washington,  D.C.,  to  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

2.  60,000  drunkards  die  every  year  in  the  United 
Kingdom,  and  at  least  120,000  lose  their  lives  from 
alcoholic  excesses. 

3.  The  world's  production  of  beer  for  1894  was 
5.477,862,221  gallons,  nearly  five  and  one-half  bil- 
lion gallons.  Beer-kegs  sufficient  to  hold  this  quan- 
tity would  belt  the  earth  seveji  times  at  the  equator; 

4.  English  people  spend  for  liquor  at  the  rate  of 
$19.40  per  annum  for  every  man,  woman,  and  child 
in  the  realm  ;  the  Scotch  spend  $14.70,  and  the  Irish 
$13.12. 

5.  The  saloons  of  this  country  graduate  and  turn 
out  on  the  street  600.000  drunkards  every  year.  Of 
this  number  one-sixth,  or  100,000,  are  boys  from  16 
to  20  years  old, 

6.  In  the  United  States  60.000  go  every  year  to 
fill  a  drunkard's  grave. 

7.  It  is  estimated  that  90  per  cent  of  the  business 
of  the  criminal  courts  is  caused  by  the  liquor  traffic. 

8.  The  stock  of  wines  and  liquors  laid  in  for  a  trip 
to  England  and  back,  on  one  of  the  large  Atlantic 
liners,  is  2.500  bottles  of  wines  and  spirits,  and  2,000 
bottles  of  ale  and  porter. 

9.  In  Boston  over  100.000  different  persons  pat- 
ronize the  saloons  every  day,  and  $22,675  ^^^  passed 
over  the  bars. 


V/EA^GNS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WaRFARh..       49 

10.  In  Cambridge,  Mass.,  when  prohibition  was 
adopted,  122  saloons  were  turned  into  stores  or 
dwellings. 

11.  If  the  money  spent  every  year  in  drink  were 
given  to  a  man  in  $5.00  gold-pieces,  he  might  walk 
around  the  earth  at  the  equator  tJiree  times,  and  drop 
one  at  every  step. 

12.  Christendom  has  introduced  into  Africa  70,000 
gallons  of  rum  to  every  missionary  sent. 

13.  In  the  Congo  Free  State  there  are  100  drunk- 
ards to  one  convert. 

14.  The  managers  of  25  different  railway  lines  in 
the  United  States,  employing  180,000  men,  will  not 
tolerate  a  drinking  man  in  their  employ. 

15.  In  one  year  over  $1,000,000  worth  of  property 
was  destroyed  by  the  failures  of  beer-drinking  engi- 
neers and  switchmen. 

16.  The  annual  consumption  per  capita  of  intoxi- 
cating liquors  in  the  United  States  is  as  follows : 
whiskey,  4  gallons  ;  wine,  i  gallon  ;  beer,  46  gallons. 

17.  In  the  penitentiary  at  Sing  Sing,  New  York, 
92  per  cent  of  the  criminals  are  there  because  of  drink  ; 
at  Boston,  Mass.,  85  per  cent. 

18.  "We  sacrifice,  in  England,  every  year,  to  the 
drink  demon,  more  children  than  were  ever  offered 
to  Moloch  in  ages  gone  by.  In  London  at  least  1,000 
babies  are  suffocated  every  year  by  drunken  moth- 
ers*." —  Canon  Farrar. 

19.  There  are  1,600,000  drunkards  in  the  United 
States.  Estimating  the  adults  at  25.000,000,  this 
means  about  one  person  out  of  every  15  a  drunkard. 


50   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

20.  In  1895  New  York  City  spent  for  liquor  $139,- 
710,208,  from  which  the  city  derived  a  revenue  of 
$1,729,000.  The  arrests  due  to  drink  were  41,153, 
and  the  costs  of  these  trials  and  imprisonments 
amounted  to  $3,703,770,  or  more  than  double  the 
revenue. 

21.  Cambridge,  Mass.,  has  80,000  people,  and  no 
saloons.  The  last  year  before  saloons  were  aboK 
ished,  $140,000  was  deposited  in  the  Savings  Bank. 
The  next  year,  with  no  saloons,  the  deposits  reached 
$586,000. 

22.  In  1895  Chicago  consumed  157,477,900  gal- 
lons of  liquor,  costing  $125,739,188. 

23.  Of  611  paupers  in  the  Edinburgh  poor-house, 
not  one  was  a  total  abstainer ;  407  of  them  admitted 
that  their  poverty  was  due  to  intemperance. 

24.  The  Bishop  of  London  points  out  that,  whereas 
it  takes  1,000  people  to  support  a  baker's  shop,  and 
700  to  800  a  butcher's  shop,  it  takes  only  from  100 
to  120  to  support  a  grog-shop. 

25.  London  spends  annually  $100,000,000  for 
liquors. 

26.  Belgium's  revenue  from  drink  has  grown  in 
40  years  from  4  million  to  53  million  francs.  Crime 
at  the  same  time  has  increased  200  per  cent,  and  in- 
sanity 128  per  cent. 

27.  Some  years  ago  a  striking  comparison  was 
made  between  Vineland,  N.J.,  and  New  Britain, 
Conn.  Each  had  about  11,000  inhabitants.  New 
Britain  had  80  saloons,  Vineland  none.  New  Brit- 
ain paid  $8,500  for  the  care  of  paupers,  and  Vineland 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       5 1 

$224.     New  Britain  paid  for  police  $7,500,  and  Vine- 
land  $75. 

28.  Under  the  maddening  influence  of  liquor  sent 
from  New  England,  200  Congoans  butchered  each 
other,  and  one  gallon  of  rum  caused  a  fight  in  which 
50  were  killed. 

29.  "  Out  of  every  100  patients  that  I  have  charge 
of  at  the  London  Hospital,  70  owe  their  ill-health 
to  alcohol  —  I  do  not  say  70  are  drunkards." —  Sir 
Andrew  Clark,  IVI.D. 

30.  According  to  Le  Journal  iV Hygiene  the  prob- 
abilities of  life  for  moderate  drinkers  and  total  ab- 
stainers are  as  follows  :  — 


At  20  years 

'  k  \ 

'15.6  yrs. 

V 

44.2       yrs. 

At  30  years 

"v 

may 

13      yrs. 

1 

36.5      yrs. 

At  40  years   - 

■^ 
^ 

expect 

1 1.6  yrs.  ' 

-2 

.28.8       yr*s. 

V 

to 

"13 

hi  50  years 

"^ 

live 

10.8  yrs. 

21.2;     yrs. 

At  60  years 

.  ^  . 

.    8.9  yrs. 

^  -^ 

15.285  yrs. 

31.  A  London  gentleman  recently  offered  a  guinea 
each  to  destitute  families  who  were  and  always  had 
been  total  abstainers.  Only  19  applications  were  re- 
ceived from  all  England,  and  only  6  of  these  were 
able  to  conform  to  the  condition. 

32.  San  Francisco  has  3,200  licensed  saloons.  It 
is  estimated  that  they  would  cover  66  solid  blocks, 
and  make  a  street  16  miles  long.  A  hideous  proces- 
sion of  15.000  persons  arrested  during  the  year  for 
drunkenness  gives  one  of  the  results  of  these  16 
miles  of  saloons. 


52   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

33.  It  would  require  a  cask  455  feet  high  and 
227>^  feet  in  diameter  to  hold  the  beer  annually  con- 
sumed in  San  Francisco.  The  battle-ship  Oregon 
could  easily  float  in  this  cask. 

34.  The  London  Temperance  Hospital  has  suc- 
cessfully treated  40,000  patients  without  alcohol. 

35.  A  great  railway  corporation  gathered  all  the 
facts  concerning  the  accidents  which  had  occurred 
on  its  line  for  five  years.  The  results  showed  that 
40  per  cent  of  all  accidents  were  due  altogether  or 
in  part  to  the  failures  of  men  who  had  been  drinking, 
and  in  18  per  cent  more  there  was  strong  suspicion  of 
such  cause,  but  no  clear  proof. 

36.  In  the  United  States  the  average  wages  is 
$354,  and  the  expenditure  for  drink  nearly  $100  a 
year  per  family. 

37.  Put  $362  into  the  gin-mill,  and  the  farmer 
gets  but  $13.  the  remainder  going  to  the  liquor 
men.  Put  $362  into  home  comforts,  and  the  farmer 
gets  $139,  and  other  honest  workers  the  remaining 
$223. 

38.  The  liquor  traffic  stands  lowest  in  the  list  of 
industries  in  the  proportion  of  wages  to  the  value 
of  products.  In  publishing  and  printing  it  is  38 
per  cent.  In  the  hat  and  cap  business  it  is  37  per 
cent ;  and  so  on  down  the  list  to  distilled  liquors, 
where  it  is  2  per  cent,  and  vinous  liquors,  where  it 
is  I  per  cent. 

39.  If  the  $1 ,000,000,000  spent  for  drink  were  spent 
for  the  necessaries  and  comforts  of  life,  it  would  give 
employment  to  those  turned  out  of  the  liquor  traffic, 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   53 

and  to  1,350,000  others  as  well,  giving  them  more 
than  $130,000,000  of  wages,  and  provide  for  those 
out  of  employment  in  our  worst  panic  years. 

40.  The  direct  cost  of  the  liquor  traffic  in  the 
United  States  is  almost  $1,000,000,000.  The  indi- 
rect cost,  according  to  most  careful  estimates,  is  as 
follows  :  — 

$8,374,889  for  maintaining  paupers  made  by  in- 
temperance. 

$37,500,000  for  crime  caused  by  intemperance. 

$8,250,000  for  insanity  caused  by  intemperance. 

$109,500,000  for  medical  attendance  and  medicine 
in  sickness  caused  by  mtemperance.  This  does  not 
include  unestimated  losses  by  fire  and  accidents  caused 
by  intemperance,  depreciation  of  property,  etc.,  which 
would  amount  to  a  very  large  sum. 

To  offset  this  the  government  receives  a  yearly 
revenue  of  $135,000,000. 


SCRIPTURE    PROBLEM. 

Sometimes  it  is  desired  to  impress  some  special 
number  in  connection  with  a  temperance  programme. 
Making  a  problem  with  Bible  numbers,  having  for  its 
answer  the  special  number,  will  by  its  novelty  rouse 
interest  in  that  number,  and  secure  perfect  attention. 
It  is  a  good  plan  to  use  at  a  temperance  social. 

Give  it  as  a  blackboard  exercise.  Let  the  leader 
announce  that  he  has  a  little  problem  that  he  would 


54   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANXE  WARFARE. 

like  to  have  the  audience  work  out  mentally  while  he 
reads  it  very  slowly  to  them.  Probably  no  one  can 
do  it,  but  it  rouses  enthusiastic  interest  and  much 
curiosity  to  make  the  request.  After  the  reading, 
unless  some  one  has  been  able  to  solve  the  problem 
and  give  the  answer,  let  the  leader  proceed  to  work 
it  out  step  by  step  on  the  blackboard,  calling  on  the 
audience  for  the  diiTerent  numbers.  Before  begin- 
ning, pass  out  slips  with  the  Scripture  reference  for 
each  number,  but  do  not  allow  those  holding  the 
references  to  give  the  answer,  except  in  cases  where 
no  one  else  can  give  it. 

A  sample  problem  is  given  here.  Any  leader  de- 
siring to  obtain  some  other  answer  will,  find  it  easy  to 
select  other  Bible  numbers,  and  vary  the  operations 
so  as  to  obtain  the  desired  result. 

PROBLEM. 

(The  answer  will  be  the  money  value  of  the  prop- 
erty destroyed  during  one  year  by  the  failure  of  beer- 
drinking  railroad  engineers  and  switchmen.) 

Divide  the  age  of  Methuselah  (  Gen.  5:  27)  by  the  num- 
ber of  Job's  daughters.      (^Job  1:2.)       969  -r  3  =  323. 

Subtract  the  number  of  the  chapter  in  Proverbs  con- 
taining the  strongest  warnings  against  intemperance  (23). 

323  —  23  =  300. 
Divide  by  the  number  of  Jacob's  sons.      (  Gen.  35  :  22.) 

300  -f  12  =  25. 
Add  the  number  of  songs  Solomon  wrote,      (i  Ki)igs 
4:32.)  25  4-  1,005  --  1.030- 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   55 

Divide   by    the    number    of    chapters    in    the   Book    of 
Esther  (10).  I5O30  -f-  10  =  103. 

Muhiply  by  the  number  of  stones  David  selected  to  kill 
Goliath.      (l  Sam.  17:40.)  I03  X  5  =  515. 

Add  the  number  of  baskets  of  fragments  gathered  after 
the  feeding  of  the  five  thousand.      {Malt.  14:  20,) 

515  4-12  =  527. 

Subtract  the  number  of   verses  in  the  shortest   Psalm, 
{Ps.  117.)  527-2=  525. 

Divide  by  the   number  of   loaves   used   in   feeding  the 
four  thousand.      {Mark  8:  5-6.)  525  -i-  7  =  75. 

Multiply  by  the  numl)er  of  years  David  reigned  over 
Israel.      (l   Chron.  29:27.)  75   X  40  =  3,000, 

Multiply  by  the  number  of  proverbs  that  Solomon  spoke, 
(l  Kings  4:  32.)  3,000  X  3,000  =  9,000,000. 

Divide  by  the  number  of  years  Moses  lived.      {Dent. 
34:  7.)  9,000,000  4-  120  =  75,000. 

Subtract  the  number  of  souls  brought  into  the  church 
on  the  day  of  Pentecost.      {Acts  2:  41.) 

75,000  —  3,000  =  72,000. 

Divide  by  the  number  of  "  Cities  of  Refuge."     {Xu»i. 
35  :  6. )  72,000  4-  6  =  12,000. 

Divide  by  the  number  of  furlongs  Bethany  was  distant 
from  Jerusalem,      {John  11  :  iS.)     12,000  -i-  15  =  800. 

Multiply  by  Joseph's  age  when  he  stood  before  Pha- 
raoh.     (  Gen.  41  :  46.)  800  X  30  =  24,000. 

Divide  by  the  height  in  cubits  of  the  porch  of  Solomon's 
Temple.      (2  Chron.  3:4.)  24,000  -i-  I20  =  200. 

Add  the  number  of  men  in  Gideon's  band,      {yndges 
7:7.)  200  +  300  =  500. 

Multiply   by   the  number   of   chapters   in   the  Book  of 
Haggai  (2),  500  X  2  =  1,000, 


56       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

Multiply  by  the  number  of  lords  invited  to  Belshazzar-'s 
feast.      {Dan.  5:  i.)  1,000  X   1,000=  1,000,000. 

Ans.  —  $1,000,000  worth  of  property  destroyed  in  one 
year  by  the  failure  of  beer-drinking  railroad  engineers  and 
switchmen. 


CONVERSATIONS. 

Conversations  ''  on  a  given  subject  are  very 
profitable,  and  are  valuable  in  bringing  out  a  number 
of  speakers  and  much  information.  The  plan  is  a 
very  good  one  to  use  in  temperance  meetings. 

Choose  a  topic  for  the  conversation,  and  divide 
it  into  any  number  of  sub-tojMCs  that  se^ms  wise. 
Select  a  leader  for  the  conversation,  and  assign  the  sub- 
topics to  different  persons,  to  prepare  a  two-  or  three- 
minute  talk.  Ask  all  the  members  to  come  prepared 
to  take  part  in  a  short  discussion  after  each  topic. 

Examples.  —  Conversation  on  "  The  Power  of  Al- 
cohol." 

1.  As  a  Promoter  of  Disease. 

2.  As  a  Producer  of  Insanity. 

3.  As  a  Cause  of  Poverty. 

4.  As  an  Instigator  of  Crime. 

5.  As  a  Deceiver  of  the  Human  Race. 

6.  As  an  Instrument  of  Death. 

7.  As  a  Destroyer  of  the  Soul. 

Conversation  on  "The  Failure  of  Alcohol."" 

1.  To  Sustain  Life  as  a  Food. 

2.  To  Heal  the  Body  as  a  Medicine. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   57 

3.  To  Give  Support  in  Either  Mental  or  Physi- 

cal Labor. 

4.  To  Enable  Us  to  Endure  Either  Cold  or  Heat. 

REFERENCES. 

Temperance  Physiology,  by  Guthrie. 
Alcohol  and  Science,  by  Hargreaves. 
7V«  Lectures  on  Alcohol,  by  Richardson. 
Alcoliol  as  a  Food  atid  Medicine,  by  Hunt. 
The  Text-Book  of  Temperance,  by  Lees. 
Alcohol  and  Hygiene,  by  Julia  Colman. 
The  Temperance  Lesson  Book,  by  Richardson. 


A    QUIZ    ON    ALCOHOL. 


A    DOZEN    QUESTIONS    ANSWERED    BY    EMINENT 
AUTHORITIES. 


Write  each  question  and  its  answer  on  a  slip  of 
paper.  Let  the  leader  ask  the  questions,  and  those 
who  hold  the  answers  give  them. 

1.  Is  Alcohol  a  Food  ? 

John  Bell,  M.D.  —  "  Alcohol  is  not  a  food.*' 
Ezra  M.  Hunt,  Af.D. —  "  The  trend  of  scientific 
research,  up   to   the   present   moment,  is  more  and 
more  against  assigning  any  definite  food  value,  direct 
or  incidental,  to  alcohol."' 

2.  Is  Alcohol  a  Poison  ? 

Sir  Andreiu  Clark,  M.D.  —  "  Alcohol  is  a  poison  ; 
so  is  arsenic ;    so   is   opium.      It   ranks   with   these 


58       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

agents.     Health  is  always  in  some  way  or  other  in- 
jured by  it ;  benefited  by  it  —  never.'' 

3.  Does  Alcohol  Aid  Digestion? 

F.  R.  Lees,  M.D.  —  "  It  is  false  that  alcohol  aids 

digestion.*' 

4.  Is  THE  Use  of  Alcohol  as  a  Medicine 
Necessary? 

yo/in  H.  Griscomb,  M.D.  —  "I  have  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  alcohol  as  a  medicine  can  be  wholly 
dispensed  with,  and  more  speedy  and  thorough  res- 
toration of  health  and  the  prolongation  of  life  be 
insured." 

5.  Does  Alcohol  Promote  Health  when 
Used  as  a  Beverage  ? 

Sir  Andrew  Clark,  M.D.  —  "  Good  health  will,  in 
my  opinion,  always  be  injured  by  ev^en  small  doses  of 
alcohol.  Even  in  small  doses  it  will  take  the  bloom 
off  and  injure  the  perfection  and  loveliness  of  health, 
both  mental  and  moral." 

Sir  \Villia?}i  Gull,  M.D.  —  "  I  hardly  know  any 
more  potent  cause  of  disease  than  alcohol." 

6.  Will  Alcohol  Prevent  Disease  ? 

George  F.  SJirady,  M.D. —  "Whiskey  is  never 
good  to  ward  off  anything.  Good  food  is  the  best 
means  with  which  to  ward  off  disease." 

7.  Will  the  Use  of  Alcohol  Prolong  Life? 
[F.  B.   Carpenter,  M.D.  —  "  After  a  very   large 

experience  of  our  life  insurance  companies,  of  our 
benefit  societies,   the  testimonv  of  all    these    is    in 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   59 

this  direction, — that  life  is  shortened  and  disease 
induced  and  the  body  very  materially  injured  by 
indulgence  in  alcoholic  liquors."" 

8.  Does  Alcohol  Help  Us  to  Endure  Cold  ? 
Sir  JoJin  Richardson.  —  "I  am  quite  satisfied  that 

spirituous  liquors  diininisJi  the  power  of  resisting 
cold.  Plenty  of  food  and  sound  digestion  are  the 
best  sources  of  heat."" 

Captaiti  Parry.  —  "  People  say  that  ardent  spirits 
keep  cold  out.  I  say,  they  let  it  in.  Few  seamen 
have  been  in  the  cold  more  than  I  have,  and  I  know 
that  spirits  do  harm." 

9.  What  can  Alcohol  do  for  Us  under  Great 
Heat? 

Dr.  Parkes.  —  "  The  best  authorities  on  tropical 
diseases  speak  strongly.  ...  It  seems  quite  cer- 
tain that  not  only  is  heat  less  well  borne  [by  tbose 
who  use  alcoholic  beverages],  but  that  insolation 
[sunstroke]  is  predisposed  to.  The  common  notion 
that  some  form  of  alcoholic  beverage  is  necessary  in 
tropical  climates  is,  I  firmly  believe,  a  mischievous 
delusion."* 

10.  Does  Alcohol  Help  Us  to  Endure  Phys- 
ical Exertion  ? 

B.  IV.  Richardson,  M.D.  —  "  It  is  often  thought 
that  wine  and  beer  and  spirits  give  strength  to  a 
man  ;  that  they  make  the  muscles  contract  with  more 
force,  and  sustain  the  action.  I  have  put  this  matter 
to  test  by  means  of  experiments,  and  I  have  found 


6o   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

that  the  idea  of  alcohol  giving  force  and  activity  to 
the  muscles  is  entirely  false.'' 

11.  Does  Alcohol  Help  Us  to  Endure  Men- 
tal Exertion  ? 

Joh7i  Guthrie,  M.A.,  D.D.  —  "  The  brain  is  the 
organ  into  which  alcohol  strikes  its  venomous  fangs 
with  special  directness  and  malignity.  For  a  few 
excited  moments,  indeed,  brilliancies  and  piquancies 
flash  forth  from  the  beleaguered  organ  ;  but  these 
are,  at  best,  signs  of  distress,  and  soon  subside. 
Whoever  wants,  by  a  short  and  easy  method,  to 
divest  his  thinking  of  all  clearness  and  balance,  let 
him  apply  the  bottle."" 

12.  What  is  Alcohol? 

IVillard  Parker,  J/.i7. —  "  Alcohol  is  the  one  evil 
genius,  whether  in  wine  or  ale  or  whiskey,  and  is 
kilRng  the  race  of  men."' 

William  Reid,  J/.Z^.  —  "  What  is  alcohol?  A 
poison  —  a  brain  poison  —  a  soul  poison  —  a  poison 
of  virtues,  of  morals  and  religion  —  the  cause  of 
more  sin  than  all  the  other  causes  combined." 

*  *  * 

DRINKING    AND    POSITIONS    OF    TRUST. 

Test-exercises  of  any  kind  rouse  interest  and 
enliven  a  meeting.  Let  the  leader  go  to  a  blackboard 
and  write  at  the  top,  "  Men  whom  we  all  want  to  be 
total  abstainers."  Then  let  him  ask  the  audience  to 
name  some  such,  and  as  they  are  given,  let  them  be 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   6 1 

written  on  the  board.  In  order  to  make  what  is 
wanted  a  little  clearer  and  more  definite,  let  the 
leader  give  the  first  one.  It  is  well  for  him  to  have 
a  list  of  his  own,  to  use  in  case  the  audience  does  not 
respond  very  well.     Here  are  some  :  — 

The  man  at  the  wheel  on  a  stormy  night. 

The  drug  clerk  when  he  puts  up  a  powerful  pre- 
scription. 

The  surgeon  who  performs  a  difficult  operation. 

The  motorman  of  an  electric  car. 

The  firemen  trying  to  save  our  lives  and  property. 

The  engineer  of  the  train. 

The  driver  of  a  pair  of  spirited  horses. 

The  train  despatcher  and  the  switchmen. 

The  nurse  who  watches  the  crisis  with  a  typhoid- 
fever  patient. 

The  driver  of  a  stage-coach  in  the  mountains. 

In  fact,  every  one  who  is  engaged  in  work  that 
requires  a  clear  brain  and  a  steady  hand. 


THE    OPINIONS    OF    SOME    GREAT    PEOPLE. 


WHAT   THEY   THINK   OF   LIQUOR    AND   THE    LIQUOR 
TRAFFIC. 


Write  these  opinions  on  slips  of  paper,  with  the 
names  of  the  authors.  Let  the  leader  ask  the  ques- 
tions, and  those  who  hold  the  slips  give  the  answers. 


02   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

Ques.  —  "Queen  Victoria,  whajt  do  you  call  the  Liquor 
Traffic  ? " 

Ans.  —  "  A  curse." 

Ques.  —  ''  Gladstone,  what  do  you  call  the  Liquor  Traffic  ? " 

Ans. —  "  A  scandal  and  a  shame." 

Ques.  —  '•  Sir  W.  Harcourt,  what  do  you  say  the  Liquor 
Traffic  is .?  '• 

Ans. —  "A  poison  in  politics  as  well  as  in  society." 

Ques.  —  "  Lord  Rosebery,  what  is  the  Liquor  Traffic  doing 
to  your  nation  ?  " 

Ans.  —  "'  The  nation  is  being  throttled  by  the  traffic." 

Ques,  —  '-Canon  Farrar,  what  do  you  call  the  Liquor  Traf- 
fic?" 

A71S.  —  "A  national  crime." 

Ques.  —  "  Earl  Cairns,  what  is  your  name  for  saloons  ? " 

Ans.  —  '•  Traps  for  workingmen." 

Ques.  —  "  Lord  Chesterfield,  what  do  you  call  liquor-sellers  ?  " 

Ans.  —  "  Artists  in  human  slaughter." 

Ques.  —  "  Bismarck,  what  does  strong  drink  do  ?  " 

Ans.  —  "  It  stupefies  and  besots." 

Ques.  —  '•  Lord  Randolph  Churchill,  what  is  your  opinion  of 
strong  drink  ? " 

Ans. —  '•  It  is  devilish  and  destructive." 

Ques.  — "  Prince  Leopold,  what  do  you  think  of  strong 
drink  ? " 

Ans. —  "  The  only  terrible  enemy  England  has  to  fear." 

Ques.  —  "  Sir  Wilfrid  Lawson,  what  is  alcohol .''  " 

Ans.  —  "  The  devil  in  solution." 

Ques.  —  "  Lord  Brougham,  what  is  drink  ? " 

A71S.  —  "  The  mother  of  want  and  the  nurse  of  crime." 

Ques.  —  "  General  Von  Moltke,  what  is  beer  ?  " 

Ans.  —  "A  far  more  dangerous  enemy  to  Germany  than  all 
the  armies  of  France." 

Ques.  —  "  Lord  Shaftesbury,  what  have  you  to  say  of  drink  }  " 

A71S.  —  "  Impossible  to  relieve  poverty  until  we  get  rid  of 
the  curse  of  drink." 


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A    TEMPERANCE    POW-WOW. 

Pow-wow  is  the  name  for  a  ''  big  talk  "  among  the 
North  American  Indians.  A  good  exercise  under  this 
name  can  be  arranged  for  a  temperance  social. 

Select  five  topics.  Have  cards  printed  or  mimeo- 
graphed with  a  Hst  of  the  topics,  and  a  dotted  line  un- 


FlVE-WIflOTE  CONtfERSRTIONS. 

-     ■n.ii«M.M.i..iitn.>la,>'ai> 

I.    fflg  iicrsonal  ©bserbation  of  tfje  lEbils  of  Cn^ 
trmpcraucc. 

2.    Qangcrous  iSeberagcs  —  SHfjat  tiare  toe  lirtnk  ? 

3.    Co  fajl}at  lEitent  is  Social  Uriitking  ^rebalcnt 
in  ©ur  ^Citg? 

4.    Qrunkartis  C  p?abc  Sern  — HEfjat  causeU  tfjeir 
fall? 

5L^^f}at  bJE  are  tiotng         ^ 
5.    J2ai]at  tor  arc  not  tfoing  S- for  ^Temperance. 
U^\)Rt  toe  coulti  tio          ) 

04   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

derneath  each  one.  Give  a  card  and  a  small  pencil 
to  each  person  present,  and  request  the  gentlemen  to 
select  partners  for  each  topic  of  conversation.  When 
all  are  ready,  tap  a  bell,  and  announce  that  the  gen- 
tlemen may  claim  partners  for  the  first  topic,  and  dis- 
cuss it  for  five  minutes.  At  the  end  of  five  minutes 
tap  the  bell,  and  change  partners  ;  and  so  on  through 
the  whole  list.  At  the  close  it  may  be  well  to  have 
a  short  general  discussion  of  all  the  topics,  under  a 
bright  leader.  Care  must  be  taken  in  the  selection 
of  topics.  Don't  select  very  deep  subjects,  but  let 
them  be  on  questions  of  vital  interest. 


PERSONAL   REMINISCENCES  OF  TEMPERANCE 
WORKERS. 

The  many  great  meetings  and  conventions  of  the 
present  day  have  given  many  opportunities  both  to 
see  and  to  hear  the  great  leaders  of  the  world's  great 
reforms.  Ask  those  who  have  seen  any  noted  tem- 
perance worker  to  tell  about  it,  and,  if  possible,  give 
some  inspiring  and  helpful  word  from  the  address  of 
the  worker. 


TWO-MINUTE   TALKS   ON   TEMPERANCE. 

Invite  ten  or  twelve  bright  speakers  to  give  two- 
minute  talks  on  temperance.  Ask  some  wide-awake, 
witty  speaker  to  introduce  each  talker,  and  observe 
the  time-limit  strictly,  tapping  a  bell  or  striking  a  gavel 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       65 

at  the  end  of  two  minutes.  If  so  desired,  one  special 
subject  may  be  chosen  as  a  common  topic  for  all  the 
talks,  instead  of  allowing  each  one  to  say  what  he 
pleases.    Such  topics  as  the  following  could  be  used  :  — 

What  have  you  seen  of  the  evil  results  of  intem- 
perance ? 

What  argument  would  you  use  to  induce  any  one  to 
sign  a  temperance  pledge  ? 

What  first  interested  you  in  temperance? 

What  crimes  of  which  you  have  personal  knowledge 
have  resulted  from  intemperance? 


SURPRISE  MEETING. 

Give  an  envelope  with  sealed  instructions  to  six' or 
eight  of  the  brightest  and  most  earnest  young  people. 

COPY   OF   SEALED   INSTRUCTIONS. 


Please  do  one  of  the  following  things  at  our 
"  Parlor  Temperance  Meeting  "  next  Tuesday  eve- 
ning. ^Yhatever  you  do  must  be  on  the  subject  of 
temperance,  and  appropriate  to  our  meeting  : 

1.  Sing  a  solo,  or  arrange  for  a  duet,  trio,  or 
quartette. 

2.  Prepare  and  conduct  a  Bible  Reading. 

3.  Give  a  recitation,  or  reading. 

4.  Write  a  poem,  or  an  original  story. 

5.  Make  a  short  address. 

6.  Write  a  paper. 

7.  Tell  anecdotes  of  some  noted  temperance 
worker. 


66   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 


SERMON   WITH   HIDDEN   TEXT. 

Some  years  ago  a  celebrated  Baptist  divine 
preached  a  sermon  at  Chautauqua,  announcing  that 
he  would  not  give  his  text  till  the  close  of  the  dis- 
course, because  he  wished  to  see  if  his  hearers  could 
discover  it  for  themselves.  The  result  was  intenst. 
interest  and  closest  attention. 

The  plan  can  be  nicely  used  by  the  pastor  in  a 
temperance  sermon,  or  by  some  gifted  young  person 
in  a  temperance  paper  or  address.  Such  subjects  as 
the  following  would  be  suitable:  "Abstinence  for 
One's  Own  Sake;"  "Abstinence  for  the  Sake  of 
Others  ;  "  "  The  Only  Safe  Way,  —  Touch  not,  Taste 
not,  Handle  not ;  "  "  Poverty  and  Intemperance." 


FROM  OUR   WATCH-TOWER. 

Every  worker  ought  to  keep  up  with  the  times  in 
regard  to  temperance  news.  The  daily  papers,  the 
rehgious  press,  the  temperance  papers,  are  full  of 
news  about  both  temperance  and  intemperance.  Bud- 
gets of  news  items  should  often  find  a  place  on  tem- 
perance programmes.  The  one  who  prepares  such  a 
budget  may  be  called  the  "  Watchman  "  or  the  "  Re- 
porter." The  budgets  of  news  may  be  called  on  the 
programme:  "From  Our  Watch-Tower ;  "  "Since 
Our  Last  Meeting;"  "What  is  Going  on  in  the 
World  from  a  Temperance  Standpoint  ;  "  or  the 
"  Bulletin." 


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TEMPERANCE    CONTESTS. 

A  GOOD  way  to  call  attention  to  some  special  sub- 
ject in  connection  with  temperance  is  to  hold  a  con- 
test. Not  only  will  those  who  take  part  in  such  a 
contest  be  especially  careful  to  make  their  addresses 
or  papers  of  unusual  interest,  but  those  who  listen 
will  give  unusual  interest  to  the  speakers.  Appoint 
several  good  speakers  (four  perhaps  is  the  best  num- 
ber) who  are  interested  in  temperance  work,  asking 
each  to  prepare  a  paper  or  address  on  the  same  topic. 
Appoint  judges  to  decide  which  contestant  has  made 
the  strongest  appeal.  To  avoid  hurting  any  one's 
feelings,  ask  the  judges  to  mention  only  the  best 
one,  leaving  the  others  ungraded. 

Such  subjects  as  these  would  be  suitable  for  con- 
tests :  "Alcohol,  the  Deadly  Foe  of  Mankind;'' 
"  The  Moderate  Drinker —  A  Slave  or  a  Free  Man  ? " 
"Drink,  the  Curse  of  the  Nation;"  "The  Liquor 
Traffic  versus  the  Gospel ;  "  "  The  Conflict  between 
Man  and  Alcohol ;  *'  "  Alcohol,  the  Deceiver  of  Man- 
kind." 


ORIGINAL   STORIES    AND   POEMS. 

In  almost  every  society  there  are  talented  young 
people  who  can  write  bright  stories  or  original  poems. 
Utilize  this  talent  for  the  benefit  of  the  temperance 
programme.  A  story  or  a  poem  produced  by  home 
talent  will  rouse  more-  interest  than  one  by  some 
unknown  author,  even  if  its  merit  is  not  so  great.     If 


68   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

there  is  no  one  in  the  society  who  is  capable  of  doing 
such  work,  perhaps  there  are  those  in  the  church  or 
the  community  who  can  be  pressed  into  service. 


TEMPERANCE   ANECDOTES. 

Temperance  literature  is  full  of  entertaining  an- 
ecdotes, many  of  which  carry  with  them  strong  and 
powerful  lessons.  Ask  a  number  of  persons  to  give 
a  short,  bright  anecdote  about  some  temperance  work 
or  worker.  Let  each  one  talk  two,  three,  or  five  min- 
utes, and  observe  the  time-limit  strictly,  tapping  the 
bell  at  the  close. 


TRADITIONS    ABOUT   ALCOHOL. 

There  are  many  curious  ancient  traditions  about 
alcohol.  Copy  these  on  ditTerent  pieces  of  paper, 
and  ask  different  ones  to  read  them.  A  number  of 
these  may  be  found  in  The  Foundatioji  of  Death,  by 
Axel  Gustafson. 


TEMPERANCE   CATECHISMS. 

A  CATECHISM  on  any  subject,  with  its  questions  and 
answers,  forms  an  admirable  way  of  imparting  much 
information  in  a  short  time.  A  number  of  cate- 
chisms, with  short,  concise  questions  and  answers, 
suitable  for  temperance  programmes,  will  be  found 
in  the  Scientific  Temperance  Bidletin. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   69 


SIMPLE   EXPERIMENTS   WITH   ALCOHOL. 

Experiments  of  any  kind,  even  very  simple  ones, 
never  fail  to  rouse  interest  and  hold  attention.  Ex- 
periments with  alcohol,  accompanied  by  a  bright 
talk  or  lecture,  will  furnish  very  delightful  as  well 
as  profit. ible  entertainment  for  a  temperance  social. 

Miss  Julia  Colman  gives  admirable  suggestions  for 
this  kind  of  work  in  a  little  pamphlet  called  "  Our 
Chemical  Experiments/''  She  says:  "Provide  all 
the  supplies  you  will  need,  and  see  that  they  are 
carefully  labelled.  Have  matches,  a  plate  or  saucer, 
a  slop-bowl,  and  a  towel.  See  that  your  lamp  is 
filled.  If  you  are  to  distil  and  condense,  have  the 
ice  ready.  .  .  .  Become  familiar  with  your  appa- 
ratus, so  that  you  can  handle  it  readily  without  burn- 
ing or  breaking  anything.  .  .  .  Let  no  experiment 
be  a  failure  ;  for  be  assured,  no  apologies  nor  expla- 
nations will  clear  away  its  effect.   .   .   . 

"  Women  have  a  natural  adaptability  to  this  work, 
as  has  often  been  proved  in  the  laboratory.  Many 
have  taken  the  apparatus  and  handled  it  with  ease, 
though  previously  quite  unacquainted  with  chemical 
manipulation. 

"  Especially  important  is  it  to  remember  that 
every  experiment  must  have  its  teaching,  so  that 
these  precious  and  important  helps  shall  not  dwindle 
into  the  province  of  mere  playthings.  .  .  .  Fa- 
miliarize your  own  mind  with  the  principles  to  be 
illustrated,  and  talk  about  them  so  forcibly  and  so 


70   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANXE  WARFARE. 

earnestly  that  your  efforts  to  teach  the  truth  may 
not  be  lost.  It  is  most  desirable  to  have  all  forms 
of  temperance  entertainment  instructive. "" 

A  few  of  the  simplest  experiments  are  given  here. 
For  others  see  The  Colors  of  Flames,  iviih  Experi- 
7nents  :  Our  Chemical  Experiments  to  Illustrate 
Tempe?'a7ice  Teachijig  (this  contains  valuable  hints 
and  directions,  as  well  as  an  excellent  specimen  lec- 
ture, with  experiments.  Do  not  fail  to  send  for  it, 
even  if  no  other  work  is  attempted  than  the  experi- 
ments given  here)  ;  The  Tej}iperajice  Handbook  for 
Speakers  and  Workers  (this  contains  many  experi- 
ments, and  ten  lectures,  several  of  which  are  excel- 
lent) ;  The  Scientific  Te7?ipera7ice  Bulleti7i  j  How  to 
Keep  Well. 

Many  experiments  can  be  performed  with  home 
contrivances,  but  many  will  be  glad  to  know  that 
specially  prepared  supplies  for  this  work  will  be 
furnished  at  very  reasonable  figures  by  Miss  Julia 
Colraan,  47  Bible  House,  New  York.  An  excellent 
testing  apparatus,  called  "The  Little  Detective,*' 
costs  $2.00:  a  chemist's  retort  for  distillation,  $1.00: 
test-tubes,  10  cents  each,  two  for  15  cents,  or  three 
for  20  cents. 

EXPERIMENTS. 

1.  Show  two  bottles,  one  containing  alcohol  and 
the  other  water.  Ask  the  audience  to  guess  which  is 
which.  It  is  impossible  to  discover  without  tastifig 
or  smelling,  as  alcohol  is  a  pure,  colorless  liquid, 
having  exactly  the  appearance  of  pure,  clear  water. 

2.  Alcohol  burns  with  a  pale-blue  flame,  making 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANXE  WARFARE.   7 1 

little  light,  but  great  hear.     Pour  a  ven.-  little  on  a 
plate,  and  burn  it. 

3.  Alcohol  bums  without  smoke,  and  produces  no 
soot,  making  it  valuable  in  the  arts  and  sciences. 
Light  an  alcohol  lamp,  and  hold  a  saucer  down  over 
the  flame,  and  show  that  no  soot  has  formed. 

4.  When  any  substance  is  burned,  the  peculiar 
color  of  its  flame  is  one  oi  the  ways  by  which  we 
prove  its  identity.  The  pale-blue  flame,  slightly 
tipped  with  yellow,  is  peculiar  to  alcohol.  Bum  a 
little  alcohol  on  a  plate',  light  a  candle  and  bum 
a  match,  noting  carefally  the  different  colors  of  their 
flames.  (.Very  pretty  experiments  may  be  added  to 
this  by  buming  other  chemical  substances  and  con- 
trasting the  flames.) 

5.  Alcohol  lends  its  taste  and  its  smell  so  easily  to 
other  substances,  that  it  is  often  quite  impossible 
to  detect  its  presence,  either  by  tasting  or  smelling. 
But  the  peculiar  pale-blue  flame,  when  burned,  will 
alwa\-s  reveal  it.  When  any  substance  contains  more 
than  forty  per  cent  alcohol  its  presence  can  be  dis- 
covered by  simply  pouring  a  little  on  a  plate  and 
burning  it.  When  the  amount  of  alcohol  is  not 
above  flfty  per  cent  it  is  difficult  to  set  fire  to  it. 
on  account  of  the  presence  of  so  much  \s-ater.  and 
it  may  have  to  be  lighted  several  times  before  it  pro- 
duces a  flame. 

Bum  brandy  and  whiskey,  which  are  usually  about 
half  water. 

Test  paregoric,  which  is  about  fifty  per  cent  al- 
cohol.    (Paregoric  also  contains  opium.) 


72   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

Burn  Jamaica  ginger.  This  is  ninety-five  per  cent 
alcohol,  and  will  leave  nothing  on  the  plate  but  a 
little  brown  ginger. 

Test  different  patent  medicines,  which  are  often 
made  up  very  largely  of  alcohol. 

6.  The  vapor  of  alcohol  will  burn.  Put  a  little 
alcohol  in  a  pan  or  a  retort,  and  heat  it.  When  it 
begins  to  boil,  hold  a  lighted  match  over  it,  and 
the  vapor  will  burn,  showing  the  pale-blue  alcoholic 
flame. 

7.  By  burning  the  vapor  the  presence  of  alcohol 
can  be  detected  in  substances  where  the  per  cent  is 
too  small  to  show  it  by  burning  on  a  plate.  Where 
there  is  more  than  ten  per  cent,  the  presence  of 
alcohol  can  be  revealed  by  putting  the  liquid  into 
a  pan  and  heating  it.  Just  before  it  begins  to  boil 
hold  a  lighted  match  over  it,  and  the  vapor  will 
ignite.  When  the  per  cent  of  alcohol  is  very  small, 
the  flame  will  be  very  slight ;  but  close  watching  will 
discover  it.  By  the  use  of  Miss  Colman's  "  Little 
Detective,"  as  low  as  five  per  cent  of  alcohol  can  be 
revealed  by  burning  the  vapor. 

Test  fermented  fruit  juice,  either  cooked  (when 
fruit  is  "  turning")  or  uncooked;  home-made  fer- 
mented wine  ;  port  wine  ;  hard  cider.  Cider  varies 
from  no  alcohol  in  perfectly  sweet  cider  to  nine  per 
cent.  It  will  be  necessary  to  use  the  apparatus  for 
testing  cider,  and  then  it  will  be  successful  only 
where  the  cider  is  so  hard  that  it  has  more  than 
five  per  cent  alcohol. 

8.  Burning  on  a  plate  reveals  the  presence  of  forty 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.-       73 

per  cent  or  more  alcohol ;  burning  the  vapor  reveals 
five  per  cent  or  more  ;  but  something  is  needed  to 
detect  the  presence  of  less  than  five  per  cent.  Alco- 
hol boils  at  170°  Fahr.,  and  water  at  212°.  In  boiling 
any  liquid  containing  both  alcohol  and  water,  the 
vapor  of  alcohol  passes  off  first.  If  this  vapor  is 
condensed  the  product  will  be  a  new  liquid  contain- 
ing a  much  larger  per  cent  of  alcohol  than  the  ori- 
ginal liquid.     This  process  is  called  distillation. 

A  simple  home-made  distilling  apparatus  may  be 
constructed  by  using  an  ordinary  tin  teapot,  a  wide- 
mouthed  bottle,  and  a  short  piece  of  rubber  tubing. 
Put  the  bottle  in  a  pan  of  cracked  ice,  or  ice-water, 
and  stand  the  teapot  over  an  alcohol  lamp.  Fasten 
one  end  of  the  rubber  tubing  on  to  the  spout  of  the 
teapot,  and  put  the  other  end  down  into  the  bottle. 
Put  the  liquid  to  be  distilled  into  the  teapot,  and  light 
the  alcohol  lamp.  When  the  liquid  boils,  the  vapor 
vi^ill  pass  into  the  cold  bottle,  and  be  condensed. 

Try  this  distilling  process  with  water  first.  The 
result  will  be  what  is  known  as  "  distilled  water," 
which  is  free  from  all  impurities,  and  is  largely  used 
by  chemists  and  druggists. 

9.  Distil  some  beer,  which  is  usually  rated  at  four 
per  cent  alcohol.  Test  the  product,  either  by  burn- 
ing on  a  plate,  or  heating  in  a  retort  and  burning  the 
vapor.  The  first  few  teaspoonfuls  are  the  strongest, 
and  will  probably  burn  on  a  plate. 

10.  By  this  process  of  distillation  strong  liquors 
are  made  from  weaker  ones.  Distilling  beer  and 
adding    certain    flavoring   substances  produces  gin, 


74       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

which  is  usually  about  thirty-five  per  cent  alcohol. 
The  strongest  alcohol  is  obtained  by  repeated  distil- 
lations. 

Make  brandy  by  distilling  port  wine  and  adding  a 
little  burnt  sugar  or  caramel.  In  the  same  way  make 
apple  brandy  by  distilling  cider,  and  peach  brandy  by 
distilling  fermented  peach  juice,  adding  burnt  sugar 
to  give  the  brandy  color.  Test  each  of  these  by 
burning  on  a  plate  if  strong  enough  ;  if  not,  by  heat- 
ing in  the  testing  flask  or  retort. 

11.  Alcohol  is  not  found  in  nature.  It  makes  its 
appearance  only  when  fermentation  takes  place.  Test 
perfectly  sweet  cider,  fresh  grape-juice,  fresh  fruit 
juices  both  sweet  and  sour,  and  boiled  or  canned 
fruit  juices,  to  prove  that  there  is  no  alcohol  in  them. 
Use  all  methods  of  testing, — burning  on  a  plate, 
heating  in  the  retort,  and  distilling. 

12.  To  show  the  effect  of  alcohol  on  albumen,  put 
the  white  of  an  egg  into  a  glass,  and  pour  some 
alcohol  over  it.  In  a  short  time  the  egg  will  become 
hardened.  The  greedy  alcohol  has  seized  the  water 
in  the  albumen  and  has  cooked  it.  We  must  remem- 
ber that  the  blood,  brain,  and  tissues  of  the  body  all 
contain  albumen  in  large  quantities. 

13.  Put  a  piece  of  raw  beef  in  some  alcohol,  and 
let  it  stand  a  few  days.  The  meat  will  harden  and 
shrink  because  the  alcohol  has  drawn  the  water  from 
the  fibres  and  coagulated  the  albumen. 

14.  To  show  the  effect  of  alcohol  on  the  blood  cor- 
puscles, prick  the  finger  and  secure  a  drop  of  blood. 
Examine  it  with  a  powerful  microscope,  and  study 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   75 

the  shape  and  arrangement  of  the  corpuscles.  Add 
a  drop  of  alcohol,  and  carefully  note  the  different  ap- 
pearance. The  alcohol  has  coagulated  the  albumen 
of  the  corpuscles. 

15.  Procure  from  a  butcher  a  little  brain  matter. 
Pour  some  alcohol  over  it,  and  it  soon  hardens,  be- 
cause the  alcohol  has  extracted  the  water. 

16.  A  very  pretty  experiment,  but  one  that  must 
be  handled  with  extreme  care,  is  the  testing  of  the 
strength  of  alcohol  with  gunpowder.  This  was  the 
method  used  in  earlier  times  :  Spread  a  little  gun- 
powder (about  one-fourth  teaspoonful)  on  a  plate, 
and  pour  a  little  gin  over  it  (some  of  the  alcohol  that 
has  been  previously  distilled  can  be  used).  Set  fire 
to  it.  If  it  is  not  very  strong,  there  will  be  enough 
water  left  after  the  alcohol  has  burned  away  to  keep 
the  powder  from  exploding.  Distil  the  gin  or  weak 
alcohol,  and  try  again.  Continue  the  distilling  and 
testing  till  an  alcohol  is  obtained  that  is  strong 
enough  to  explode  the  powder  when  it  burns.  This 
alcohol  will  be  what  is  known  as  "  proof." 


TITLES  FOR  TEMPERANCE  PAPERS. 

(Many  of  these  have  been  taken  from  temperance  papers, 
programmes,  books,  tracts,  etc.  For  materials,  see  the  list  of 
publications  at  the  end  of  the  book.) 

Shakespeare  asks,  "What's  in  a  name?"  and 
we  have  been  content  to  agree  with  him  that  "a 
rose  by  any  other  name  would  smell  as  sweet."     But 


76   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

it  is  true,  nevertheless,  that  a  paper  with  an  attrac- 
tive name  will  secure  attention  and  rouse  interest  far 
better  than  one  with  an  ordinary,  commonplace  title. 

1.  Alcohol  :  Its  Power  of  Clinging  to  Its  Victim. 

2.  The  Great  Instrument  of  Vice. 

3.  The  Giant  Opponent  to  Moral  Reformation. 

4.  Water  the  All-Sufficient  Beverage  of  Man. 

5.  Chemical  Composition  of  Alcoholic  Drinks. 

6.  The  Alleged  Virtues  of  Liquor. 

7.  Alcohol :  the  Great  Disease-Producer. 

8.  Alcohol:  the  Deadly  Foe  of  Mankind. 

9.  The  Temperance  Moral  of  Arctic  Expeditions. 
ID.    Alcohol :  Aqua  Vitae  or  Aqua  Mortis  ? 

11.  Childhood  and  Youth  of  the  Temperance  Re- 

form. 

12.  The  Woman's  Crusade. 

13.  Moderate  Drinking  Weighed  in  the  Balances 

of  Experience  and  Found  Wanting. 

14.  Alcohol :   Its  Place  and  Power. 

15.  The  Use  and  Abuse  of  Alcohol. 

16.  Alexis  St.  Martin  :  Scientific  Faith  Becomes 

Sight. 

17.  Alcohol  Unmasked  and  Convicted. 

18.  The  Temperance  Reformation. 

19.  Abstinence  for  One's  Own  Sake. 

"  If  you  are  fond  of  wine,  you  ought  to  abstain  foi* 
your  own  sake." — Farrar. 

20.  Abstinence  for  the  Sake  of  Others. 

"  If  you  are  not  fond  of  wine,  you  ought  to  abstain 
for  the  sake  of  others."  —  Farrar. 

21.  Paul's  Rules  Concerning  Abstinence. 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANXE    WARFARE.       77 

22.  The  Drink  Demon. 

23.  Pen  Pictures  of  Life-Long  Abstainers. 

24.  Influence  of  Alcohol  on  the  Human  Race. 

25.  The  Great  Poverty-Producer. 

26.  The  Mother  of  Crimes. 

27.  Danger  Signals. 

28.  Alcohol:  Its  Greed  for  Water. 

29.  Wine  a  Mocker. 

30.  The  Faithful  Servant  of  Our  Arch-Enemy. 

31.  Alcohol:  a  Great  Deceiver  of  Mankind. 

32.  A  Chapter  of  Woes. 

33.  The  Curse  in  the  Cup. 

34.  The  Curse  of  Africa. 

35.  Our  Battle  with  the  Drink-Demon. 

36.  Alcohol   the   Source  of  Poverty,  Crime,  Dis- 

ease, and  Death. 

37.  The  Fatal  Power  of  Fire- Water. 

38.  Behold  What  Rum  Hath  Wrought ! 

39.  Cider  or  not  Cider  —  That  is  the  Question. 

40.  The   Only   Safe   Way —  "  Touch   not,   Taste 

not,  Handle  not." 

41.  A  Great  Life-Destroyer. 

42.  The  Drink  Demon's  Work  in  Our  Land. 

43.  The    -'Old    Oaken    Bucket"  or   the    "Little 

Brown  Jug  "'  —  Which  ? 

44.  The  Safety  of  the  Never-Beginners. 

45.  The  Footprints  of  the  Arch-Fiend,  Alcohol. 

46.  Autobiography  of  Alcohol. 

47.  Rum,  the  Workingman's  Worst  Enemy. 

48.  The  Serpent  in  the  Glass. 

49.  Social  Drinking. 


78       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

50.  The  Chains  Forged  by  Alcohol.- 

51.  The  Moderate  Drinker  —  A  Slave  or  a  Free 

Man? 

52.  Fruits  of  the  Liquor  Traffic. 

53.  Total  Abstinence  a  Duty  and  a  Gain. 

54.  The  Power  of  Woman's  Influence. 

55.*  A  Cloud  of  Witnesses  to  the  Deadly  Power  of 
Drink. 

56.  A  Nation's  Greatest  Danger  —  Grape-Juice  or 

Grape-Shot? 

57.  Have  We  a  King  in  America? 

58.  How  Drink  Curses  a  Nation. 

59.  Death  in  the  Cup. 

60.  The  Liquor  Traffic  and  Its  Fruits. 

61.  A  Short  Line  to  Destruction. 

62.  Dangerous  Beverages. 

63.  Some  Ugly  Facts. 

64.  The  Mocking  Genius  of  the  Winecup. 

65.  Rum  a  Robber. 

66.  Alcohol  in  the  Kitchen. 

67.  The  Agent  of  Our  Adversary. 

68.  A  Monster  Evil  in  the  Land. 

69.  Some  Celebrated  Total  Abstainers. 

70.  An  Enemy  Hard  to  Conquer. 

71.  The  Home  Side  of  the  Temperance  Question. 

72.  Intemperance  from  a  Business  Standpoint. 

73.  Perverting  God's  Good  Gifts. 

74.  The  Saloon  an  Opposer  of  Civilization. 

75.  The  Sacrifice  of  Children  to  the  Drink  Demon. 

76.  The  Blindness  of  Moderate  Drinkers. 
-]-].  What  Shall  We  Drink? 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       79 

78.  A  Crusade  against  the  Liquor  Traffic. 

79.  What  the   Beer-Drinker  Gets  in  Return   for 

His  Money. 

80.  The  Slavery  of  the  Drink  Habit. 

81.  The  Viper  in  the  First  Glass. 

82.  Cider,  Satan's  Trap  for  the  Children. 

83.  The  Liquor  Traffic  and  Foreign  Alissions. 

84.  Human  Life  Sacrificed  to  the  Drink  Demon. 

85.  Can  You  Afford  to  Drink? 

86.  Temperance  in  the  Home. 
S7.  Alcohol  and  the  Pocket-Book. 

88.  The  Conflict  between  Man  and  AlcohoL 

89.  The  Home-Destroyer. 

90.  Alcohol :   The  Ally  of  Evil. 

91.  What  the  Nation  Loses  by  the  Drink  Traffic. 

92.  Alcohol:  the  Enemy  of  the  Gospel. 

93.  How  the  Liquor  Traffic  Hinders  the  Spread 

of  the  Gospel. 

94.  Our  Liquor  Foe  an  Old  Foe. 

95.  Recruiting  Stations  for  Prisons,  Poor-Houses, 

Insane  Asylums,  and  Drunkards'  Graves. 

96.  Temperance  Testimonies  of  Many  Travellers. 
97^.    Father  Mathew,  the  Apostle  of  Temperance. 

98.  The  Washingtonian  Movement. 

99.  The  Story  of  the  Blue  Ribbon. « 

100.    The  Great  Social  Change  in  the  Nineteenth 

Century. « 
loi.    Drinking  among  the  Ancients."^ 

102.  Drink  Customs  of  the  Nations. 

103.  Ancient  Traditions  of  Alcohol.* 

104.  Drinking  a  Sin  Per  Se. 


)   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

105.  Direct  and  Indirect  Cost  of  tlie  Liquor  Traffic. 

106.  Alcohol  under  the  Ban  of  the  Church. 

107.  The  History  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 

perance Union. 

108.  Great  Temperance  Revivals. 

109.  The  Power  of  Example. 

no.    Great  Lives  Extinguished  in  the  Baleful  Fires 
of  Alcoholism. 

111.  The  Moral   Responsibility  of  the   .Moderate 

Drinker. 

112.  Putting  the  Bottle  to  Our  Neighbor's  Mouth. 

113.  A  Looking-Glass  for  the  Rumseller. 

114.  The  Blemish  of  Government,  the  Shame  of 

Religion,  and  the  Disgrace  of  Mankind. 

115.  Ragged  Homes,  and  How  to  Mend  Them. 

116.  Alcohol    against    the    Bible,    and    the    Bible 

against  Alcohol. 

117.  Arrows  from  a  Temperance  Quiver 

118.  The  Truth  about  Alcohol. 

119.  Heroes  in  the  Temperance  Strife. 

120.  What  shall  We  do  for  the  Drunkard? 

121.  Bacchus  Dethroned. 

122.  The  Relation  between  Drink  and  Crime. 

123.  A  Brief  Epitome  of  Temperance  in  the  Nine- 

teenth Century. 

124.  Drinking  and  Positions  of  Trust. 

125.  A  Bitter  Cry  from  Desolate  Homes. 

a.  See  Tlie  Blue  Ribbon. 

b.  See  TJie  Foundation  of  Death. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   8 I 


AN   EVENING  WITH   JOHN    B.    GOUGH. 


"  Could  I  cull  a  flower  from  every  person  whom  John  B. 
Cough's  life  benefited  or  will  benefit,  a  mountain  loftier  than 
the  highest  Himalayan  range  would  rise  to  reflect  back  the  pu- 
rity and  grandeur  of  God."  —  Dr.  \V.  M.  Taylor. 


PROGRAMME. 

Scripture  Lesson Mr.  W — 

Prayer Rev.  — 

Hymx. 
Roll-Call  —  Quotations  from  John  B.  Gough.^ 

Sketch^— Mr.  B — 

"The  Greatest  Leader  of  the  World's  Greatest  Reform. 
Vocal  Solo  —  "  The  Drunkard's  Lament."*^ 

Written  and  sung  by  Gough     ....    Miss  D — 
Some  Anecdotes  and  Illustrations  used  by 

Gough  ^ Conducted  by  Miss  C — 

Personal  Reminiscences  of  John  B.  Gough. <? 

Rev.  — 

"  Young  man,  keep  your  record  clean.-' 

Gough's  last  words. 


THE   DRUNKARD'S   LAMENT. 

IVords  written  and  sung-  by  John  B.  Gough. 
(Air.  — "Long,  Long  Ago.") 

Where  are  the  friends  that  to  me  were  so  dear  ? 

Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 
Where  are  the  hopes  that  my  heart  used  to  cheer  1 

Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 


82       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

Friends  that  I  loved,  in  the  grave  are  laid  low; 
Hopes  that  I  cherished  are  fled  from  me  now; 
I  am  degraded,  for  Rum  was  my  foe, 
Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 

Sadly  my  wife  bowed  her  beautiful  head, 
Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 

Oh,  how  I  wept  when  1  knew  she  was  dead ! 
Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 

She  was  an  angel,  my  love  and  my  guide ; 

Vainly  to  save  me  from  ruin  she  tried ; 

Poor  broken  heart  !  it  was  well  that  she  died, 
Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 

Let  me  look  back  on  the  days  of  my  youth  — 
Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 

I  was  no  stranger  to  virtue  and  truth, 
Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 

Oh,  for  the  hopes  that  were  pure  as  the  day ! 

Oh,  for  the  loves  that  were  purer  than  they ! 

Oh,  for  the  hours  that  I  squandered  away ! 
Long,  long  ago  —  long  ago. 


REFERENCES. 


a.  Te»iperatLce  Shot  a>id  Shell,  gives  six  strong  quotations  from 
Gough. 

b.  See  "  Sketches  of  Temperance  Workers,"  p.  31. 

c.  Gough  sang  this  sad  lament  in  "  sweet,  plaintive  tones  that 
touched  the  hardest  hearts."  Music  and  words  can  be  obtained  from 
the  Woman's  Temperance  Publication  Association  under  the  title 
"The  Inebriate's  Lament." 

d.  Have  some  one  select  a  number  of  anecdotes,  etc.,  from  Gough's 
writings,  and  conduct  the  exercise  as  in  "  Sharp-shooting,"  p.  35. 
See  Platform  Echoes ;  Sunlight  and  Shadow  ;  or,  Gleani7igs  from 
My  Life  Work;  A  idobiography  and  Personal  Recollections  of  John 
B.  Gough. 

e.  See  Personal  Reminiscences  of  John  B.  Gough,  by  Frances  E. 
Willard;  memorial  number  of  the  Unioti  Signal,  April  8,  1886.  Per- 
haps it  would  be  better  still  to  have  this  number  given  by  some  one 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.  S>^ 

who   still   remembers  Gough.      There    are    probably  many  in  every 
city  who  have  listened  to  this  "  prince  of  platform  orators." 


THE  WICKED  COMPANY  OF  THE  MAN  WON- 
DERFUL IN  THE  HOUSE  BEAUTIFUL."^ 

AN    ALLEGORY. 


PROGRAMME. 

Scripture  Lesson Mr.  R- 

Prayer Rev.  - 

Hymn  —  "  We  shall  do  it  by  and  by."^ 


PART  I.  <^ 
THE   QUACK   DOCTOR. 

The  Liberation  of  Al  Gohul,  the  Great,  Mr.  S 

Majority  Report,  presented  by  Dr.  Hand 

and  Gulp,  e/  a/ Mr.  C 

Minority  Report,  presented  by  Madame 

Science Mrs.  K 

Music—  "  Where  there's  Drink,  there's  Danger."  ^ 

PART  11.'^ 
THE    SHYSTER  — A   DECEIVER. 

Gohul  in  Disguise Mr.  A 

Report  for  Gohul,  by  Dr.  Wiseacre,  Prof.  Swell- 
head,  Rev.  Esau  Timeserver,  f/  (7/.   .     .     Miss  J 

Report  against  Gohul,  by  Prof.  Liebig,  Chemist, 

Dr.  Bartholow,  John  Bell,  M.D.,  e^  al.       Mr.  M 

Piano  Solo  —  "  W.  C.  T.  U.  March  Medley."  b 


84   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

PART  III.^ 
THE  THIEF. 

GoHUL  IN  A  New  Disguise Mrs.  W- 

Testimonies  against  Gohul,  by 

1.  Observation Miss  R- 

2.  Chemistry Prof.  Q- 

3.  Madame  Science Mrs.  K- 

4.  Medicine Dr.  B- 

Music  —  Quartette,  "The  Drunkard's  Woe."  ^ 


PART   IV./ 


THE   MURDERER. 

Gohul  Unmasked Miss  F- 

The  Report  of  the  Committee      .     .     .  Mr.  G- 
reports  of 

1.  Madame  Science Mrs.  K- 

2.  Experience Miss  H- 

3.  Heredity Mrs.  N- 

4.  Economy Mr.  D- 

5.  MoraHty  (signed  by  Truthfulness,  Charity,  and 

Goodness) Miss  T- 

GoHUL's  Study  of  the  Situation     .     .    Mrs.  O- 
SoLO  and  Chorus  —  "  Some  Glad  Day."  i> 


REFERENCES 


a.  Four  chapters  from  The  Man  Wonder/id  171  the  House  Beau- 
tiful, by  Drs.  Chilion  B.  and  Mary  Allen. 

b.  "  Drunkard's  Woe,"  see  Bugle  Notes,  or  Temperance  Lesson 
Leaf  No.  50,  called  "  Manifold  Woe."  "  We  shall  do  it  by  and  by," 
see  Ripples  of  Song,  or  Juvenile  Temperance  Hymn  Card.  "  Some 
Glad  Day,"  "Where  there's  Drink,  there's  Danger,"  and  "  W.  C. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERAN'CE  WARFARE.   85 

T.  U.  Medley  "  —  Woman's  Temperance  Publication  Association. 
Other  appropriate  music  can  be  substituted  for  these  numbers. 
Effective  and  appropriate  tableaux  might  be  also  used  between  the 
parts  of  the  programme. 

c.  Chapter  X.     Let  Mr.  S read  from  p.  270  to  the  "  Majority 

Report,"  p.  275;  also  p.  278,  the  last  two  paragraphs.  Omit  the 
foot-note,  p.  276. 

d.  Chapter  XI.     Let  Mr.  A read  from  p.  279  to  "  Report  in 

Favor  of  Beer,"  p.  282.     Omit  the  foot-note,  p.  284. 

e.  Chapter  XIL  Let  Mrs.  W read  from  p.  2S7  to  the  sen- 
tence, "  Gohul  is  a  thief,"  etc.,  p.  289;  also  from  the  paragraph 
beginning,  "  These  assertions,"  etc.,  p.  289,  to  the  paragraph  begin- 
ning, "Chemistry  tells  us,"  etc.,  p.  290;  also  the  last  paragraph  on 
p.  293. 

/.  Chapter  XII L  Let  Miss  F read  p.  294  as  far  as  the  "  Re- 
port of  the  Committee  ;  "  also  the  poem  on  pp.  305  and  306.  Omit 
p.  307.  Have  the  same  person  read  all  three  of  the  reports  by 
"Madame  Science." 


A  PALAVER  ABOUT  AFRICA  AND  THE  LIQUOR 
TRAFIC. 


Palaver  is  the  African  name  for  a  '■  big  talk." 

For  directions,  see  the  exercise  called  "  Sharp- 
shooting,"  on  p.  35.  Conduct  the  palaver  in  a  simi- 
lar manner.  If  it  could  be  arranged  for  the  different 
speakers  to  give  their  parts  in  the  right  order,  with- 
out being  called  for  by  luimber  or  7iame,  it  would  add 
very  much  to  the  effectiveness  of  the  palaver. 
*  * 

I.    In  the  centre  of  the  nave  of  Westminster  Ab- 
bey is  the  grave  in  which  lie  the  remains  of  David 


86       WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

Livingstone,  carried  by  his  faithful  blacks  during  an 
eight  months'  journey  to  the  coast,  and  identified  in 
England  by  the  marks  of  the  lion^s  claw  upon  his 
arm.  On  that  grave  are  inscribed  the  last  words  he 
wrote  in  his  diary  before  he  closed  his  eyes  —  with 
none  but  black  faces  around  him  —  in  his  humble 
hut  at  Chetamba's  village,  Ulala.  They  are:  "All 
I  can  add  in  my  solitude  is,  May  Heaven's  richest 
blessing  come  down  on  every  one,  7\merican,  Eng- 
lish, or  Turk,  who  will  help  to  heal  this  open  sore  of 
the  world.''     This  open  sore  was  the  slave  trade.  — 

Farrar. 

*  * 

2.  The  old  rapacity  of  the  slave  trade  has  been 
followed  by  the  greedier  and  more  ruinous  rapacity 
of  the  drink-seller.  Our  fathers  tore  from  the  neck 
of  Africa  a  yoke  of  whips  ;  we  have  subjected  the 
native  races  to  a  yoke  of  scorpions.  Our  fathers  con- 
ferred on  this  vast  and  helpless  continent  a  most 
precious  boon  ;  we  have  more  than  neutralized  the 
boon  by  the  wholesale  introduction  of  an  intolerable 
bane.  We  have  opened  the  rivers  of  Africa  to  com- 
merce, only  to  pour  down  them  that  "raging  Phlege- 
thon  of  alcohol,"  than  which  no  river  of  the  Inferno 
is  more  blood-red  or  more  accursed.  —  Farrar. 


3.  It  is  my  sincere  belief  that  if  the  slave  trade 
■were  revived  with  all  its  horrors,  and  Africa  could 
get  rid  of  the  white  man  with  the  gunpowder  and 
rum  which  he    has  introduced,  Africa  would   be  a 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.       87 

gainer  in  happiness  by  the  exchange.  —  Sir  Rich- 
ard Burton,  discoverer  of  Tajiga?iyika. 


4.  Who  are  the  promoters  of  this  gigantic  evil,  and 
the. particeps  criniinis  in  the  matter?  The  answer  is 
easy.  There  are  two  sets  of  individuals  implicated 
in  the  crime,  and  each  set  is  wholly  to  blame.  It  is 
a  question  which  should  be  named  first,  the  rum- 
selling  miscreants  who  are  doing  the  devil's  work,  or 
the  statesmen  composing  the  Berlin  Conference,  who 
allowed  them  to  do  it.  On  the  whole,  I  think  the 
latter  are  entitled  to  the  place  of  honor.  —  W.  T. 

HORNADAV. 

At  this  congress,  held  in  1885,  America,  England, 
France,  and  Italy  endeavored  to  shut  drink  out  of 
the  new  world  in  Central  Africa.  Leopold  of  Belgium 
joined  with  their  representatives  —  Kasson,  Malet, 
Courcy,  and  Launay  —  in  desiring  prohibition  ;  but 
the  liquor  dealers  of'  Germany,  Holland,  and  Portu- 
gal insisted  on  free  rum  in  the  Congo  basin,  be- 
cause it  is  consecrated  to  free  trade.  So  the  vultures 
settled  dow^n  again — this  time  more  boldly  —  upon 
the  body  of  Africa,  and  tore  at  her  vitals  even  more 
ravenously.  —  F.  P.  Noble. 


5.  The  African  has  neither  the  stamina  nor  the 
will  to  withstand  brandy,  gin,  and  rum.  If  he  drinks 
them  once,  an  appetite  forms  itself,  which  he  is  as 
powerless  to  kill  as  the  prince  who  permitted  Satan 


88   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

to  kiss  him  on  the  shoulders  was  to  tear  away  the 
serpents  that  grew  out  of  his  body  where  the  fiend's 
lips  touched  human  flesh.  The  poison  of  distilled 
spirits,  with  the  deadliness  of  the  climate  and  the 
vices  of  heathenism,  destroys  body  and  soul.  Na- 
ture-peoples must  be  sober  or  die.  The  natural  cru- 
elty and  blood-thirstiness  of  the  African  is  kindled 
by  "crazy  waters''  into  the  madness  of  demons.  On 
the  Gold  Coast  drunkenness  is  so  common  that  it  is 
customary  not  to  visit  native  officials  after  dinner. 
No  street  preaching  is  allowed  in  tlie  evening,  for  no 
man  dare  face  the  intoxicated  multitude.  Funerals 
are  horrible  with  rum  and  powder,  $500  worth  being 
sometimes  drunk  and  burnt.  At  times  a  whole  vil- 
lage is  intoxicated.  Many  sleep  with  bottles  as  pil- 
lows, and  drink  during  the  nio:ht.  —  F.  P.   Noble. 


6.  It  is  not  possible  to  find  out  just  how  much 
liquor  goes  to  Africa.  The  traders  on  the  spot  refer 
one  to  the  agents  in  Europe  ;  the  agents  are  perfectly 
noncommittal.  They  don't  want  anybody  to  know 
how  much  they  sell,  or  at  what  profit.  One  German 
house  sends  to  Africa  a  large  steamer  every  third 
week  filled  with  gin.  On  one  that  I  saw  there  were 
50,000  gallons  for  one  town  near  tlie  mouth  of  the 
Niger. 

As  we  steamed  into  the  harbor  of  Freetown,  Sierra 
Leone,  on  my  way  down  the  coast,  my  attention  was 
called  to  a  beautiful  sailing-vessel  lying  at  one  side, 
with  the  remark:   "  That  is  an  American  vessel."    It 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEiMPERANCE    WARFARE.       89 

was  painted  white  from  stem  to  stern,  and  every  line 
and  detail  was  perfect.  The  "  Stars  and  Stripes  " 
were  flying;  and  when  I  saw  them,  and  the  name, 
White  Cloud,  Boston,  with  a  swelling  heart,  caused 
by  pride  and  aiTection,  I  rapturously  waved  my  hand- 
kerchief, when  my  interlocutor  said  :  "  Her  cafgo  is 
rum  ;  that  line  brings  little  else."'  Since  then,  every 
American  ship  I  see  on  the  coast  costs  me  a  shud- 
der and  a  feeling  of  shame  so  strong  that  I  avoid 
all  mention  of  them.  The  descendants  of  the  Puri- 
tans sending  rum  to  debauch  these  poor,  ignorant 
natives  I  —  Mary  Clement  Leavitt. 


7.  At  Sierra  I  saw  great  pyramids  of  demijohns  of 
gin,  row  upon  row  of  butts  of  rum  and  whiskey,  piled 
out-of-doors,  besides  store  after  store  full  of  it.  At 
Aforjupa,  not  long  ago,  all  the  seats  of  the  church 
were  gin  boxes.  I  walked  through  a  village  near 
Mpallaballa  on  the  Congo,  where  the  chief's  house, 
and  others  of  the  better  houses,  had  for  foundations 
gin  bottles,  with  their  necks  driven  into  the  ground  ; 
and  farther  north  on  the  coast,  garden  beds  and 
walks  are  very  frequently  bordered  with  them.  — 
Mary  Clement  Leavitt. 


8.  From  Boston.  Liverpool,  Hamburg,  and  Hol- 
land flow  these  streams  of  liquid  damnation.  Since 
1882  (this  was  written  in  1894)  at  least  one  hundred 
million  gallons   of  spirits   have   flowed    into   Africa. 


90   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

The  gauge  of  wealth  is  the  amount  of  liquor  the  vil- 
lage can  afford  to  drink.  —  F.  P.  Noble. 


9.  As  you  travel  through  some  of  the  interior 
country,  your  eyes  rest  upon  miles  and  miles  of  land 
well  cultivated  ;  and  as  you  stand  at  Lagos  you  can 
see  fleets  of  canoes  laden  with  casks  of  palm-oil, 
nuts,  and  other  produce.  But  when  they  are  return- 
ing home,  what  do  they  carry  with  them  ?  Very  few 
pieces  of  cloth  ;  every  one  of  them  is  laden  with  rum 
and  gin.  We  give  Europe  palm-oil  and  many  other 
useful  things  ;  but  what  does  she  give  us  in  return  ? 
This  vile  stuff;  this  spirit  which  sends  our  people 
drunken  and  mad.  —  Rev.  James  Johnson,  a  dis- 
tinguished native. 

10.  European  traders  force  drink  upon  the  natives 
and  the  native  traders  contrary  to  their  will.  One 
European  trader  said  to  another  in  my  hearing, 
"  Down  my  way  the  niggers  are  getting  so  impudent 
they  don't  want  to  take  what  you  offer  them  in  trade  ; 
they  want  to  choose."  Said  the  other  trader,  "  What 
do  they  want?  *'  —  "  Oh,  clothes,  and  salt,  and  money  ! 
Think  of  that  !  They  want  7no?iey,  and  they  don't 
want  rum  !  " 

The  following  incident  was  related  to  me  by  one  of 
the  missionaries  at  Duke  Town,  Old  Calabar:  A 
chief  of  one  of  the  towns  up  the  river  had  been 
trained  in  the  mission  school,  but  had  not  been  con- 
verted.    He  returned  to  his  village,  married,  and  be- 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   9 1 

came  a  trader.  Afterwards  he  was  converted  and 
wished  to  join  the  church.  Among  the  questions 
asked  was  this,  "  Are  you  willing  to  sign  a  total  ab- 
stinence pledge  ?  '^  He  was  willing,  and  signed  it. 
Next  this  question  was  put,  "  Will  you  give  up  trad- 
ing in  drink  ?  "^  This  caused  some  hesitation,  as  it 
would  interfere  with  his  profits  to  a  very  considerable 
extent ;  but  this  was  also  promised.  Not  long  after 
he  had  a  boat-load  of  palm-oil  and  kernels  to  send  to 
Duke  Town.  He  charged  the  clerk  not  to  take  any 
drink  in  payment ;  but  the  trader  said  he  inusf  take 
one  cask,  and  finding  remonstrances  in  vain,  the 
clerk  consented  to  receive  the  cask  on  board  the 
boat.  The  chief  went  down  the  river  to  exchange 
the  drink  for  other  goods,  but  the  trader  refused  to 
do  so.  The  chief  poured  the  rum  into  the  river, 
threw  the  empty  cask  after  it,  and  returned  home. 
—  Mary  Clement  Leavitt. 


II.  Gin  is  used  as  currency.  Gin  and  rum  are 
also  largely  consumed  as  grog  by  our  native  work- 
men. We  dilute  both  largely,  but  we  are  compelled 
to  serve  it  out  morning  and  evening.  A  stoppage 
of  this  would  be  followed  by  a  cessation  of  work.  It 
is  "custom;"  custom  is  despotic,  and  we  are  too 
weak  and  too  new  in  the  country  to  rebel  against 
custom.  Every  visitor  to  our  camp  on  this  part  of 
the  Congo  (the  lower),  if  he  has  a  palaver  with  us, 
must  first  receive  a  small  glass  of  gin  or  mm.  The 
chief  receives  a  bottleful,  which  he  distributes,  tea- 


92   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

spoonful  by  teaspoonful,  among  his  followers.  This 
is  the  Lower  Congo  idea  of  "an  all-around  drink." 
—  Henry  M.  Stanley. 


12.  The  African  liquor  traffic  is  the  upas-tree  of 
commerce.  Within  its  poison-area  no  other  trade  or 
industry  can  grow.  In  any  African  community  drink 
finds  ready  sale,  even  when  it  is  first  introduced. 
The  trade  in  which  gin  is  the  medium  of  barter  must 
grow  one  hundred  times  faster  than  where  cotton  is 
currency  ;  but  a  commerce  beginning  with  gin  must 
end  with  gin,  for  every  bottle  of  spirits  drives  out  a 
bale  of  goods.  Industry  cannot  thrive,  and  in  its 
absence  there  can  be  no  development  of  natural  re- 
sources. One  trader  says  himself:  "  The  traffic  has 
so  debased  them  that  they  neglect  comfort.  There 
is  no  thought  of  providing  regularly  and  systemati- 
cally for  themselves  and  dependents  ;  of  cultivating 
palm-trees  or  collecting  and  shelling  palm-nuts  for 
the  market :  of  proper  systems  of  agriculture  ;  no  de- 
sire of  acquiring  wealth  ;  no  home  and  no  care  of 
domestic  business.  It  will  be  a  great  gain  to  com- 
merce if  the  liquor  traffic  is  eradicated." — F.  P. 
Noble. 

13.  If  the  natives  take  to  drinking  brandy,  the 
craving  for  it  soon  becomes  uncontrollable.  In  a 
short  time  all  their  cattle  are  sold  for  the  purpose  of 
buying  brandy  ;  they  then  become  thieves,  sinking 
to  even  deeper  depths  ;  lose  health  and  strength,  and 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.      93 

miserably  die.  The  drink  traffic  in  South  Africa 
means  death  and  ruin  to  the  natives.  In  1883  it 
was  officially  reported  that  in  two  months  one  hun- 
dred and  six  natives  had  been  killed  by  brandy- 
drinking.  How  many  daily  pine  away  and  die  under 
this  curse,  all  over  South  Africa,  of  which  no  human 
record  is  kept !  —  Rev.  N.  J.  Hofmeyer. 


14.  Through  the  wounds  inflicted  by  the  twin  de- 
mons of  Moslem  slaving  and  Christian  rum-selling, 
Africa  is  bleeding  out  her  life  blood  at  every  pore.  — 
F.  P.  Noble. 

The  death  of  the  negro  race  is  only  a  question  of 
a  few  years.  I  would  rather  my  countrymen  were  in 
slavery  and  hard  worked,  but  drink  kept  away. — 
Rev.  James  Johnson. 


15.    In  the  Congo  Free  State,  the  battle  will  be 
between  the  Bible  and  the  bottle.  —  F.  P.  Noble. 


16.  Every  ship  that  takes  missionaries  to  Africa 
carries  enough  poisonous  rum  and  gin  to  off'set  in 
evil  the  good  eflfect  of  one  thousand  missionaries. 
Since  the  opening  of  the  Congo  region  enormous 
quantities  of  this  stuff —  so  vile  that  there  is  no  mar- 
ket for  it  in  any  civilized  country  —  have  been  shipped 
to  the  savages.  —  New  York  Times. 

The  steamer  on  which  we  came  brought  apparatus 


94   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

to  establish  a  manufactory  of  brandy.  They  will 
soon  have  seven  hundred  barrels  of  the  poison 
ready  for  sale.  —  A  Missionary  in  Africa. 

For  any  African  who  is  influenced  for  good  by 
Christianity,  a  thousand  are  driven  into  deeper  deg- 
radation by  the  gin  trade.  —  Joseph  Thompson, 
F.R.G.S. 

Were  it  not  for  this  import  of  spirits,  native  church- 
members  now  reckoned  at  only  one  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  would  number  a  million  or  more.  —  F.  P. 

Noble. 

*  * 

17.  One  aggravation  of  our  national  guilt  in  this 
matter  is  the  fact  that  even  these  helpless  races  have 
found  a  voice  to  express  their  entreaty  that  they  may 
be  delivered  from  an  alien  curse,  inflicted  by  a  con- 
tact which  they  did  not  seek  and  which  is  destroy- 
ing them.  In  1883  the  natives  of  the  diamond  fields 
implored  Parliament  to  have  public-houses  removed 
from  them  a  distance  of  six  miles,  and  their  petition 
was  cruelly  rejected.  —  Farrar. 

Khama,  the  King  of  the  Bamangwatos,  had  passed 
a  law  that  no  liquor  should  be  sold  in  his  territory, 
under  heavy  penalty,  and  also  that  no  trader  having 
liquor  in  his  possession  for  sale  should  enter  his 
kingdom,  or  even  be  permitted  to  pass  through  any 
portion  of  it.  Along  came  an  English  trader,  Mr. 
"  X,"  who  smuggled  several  casks  of  alcohol  into 
the  territory.  Being  detected,  "  X"  was  ordered  out 
of  the  country.  After  trekking  a  short  distance,  he 
buried  his  alcohol,  returned,  "lied  atrociously  "  to 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.   95 

the  king  about  it.  and  afterwards  sold  it  to  the  king's 
subjects.  His  perfidy  was  discovered  and  he  fled ; 
but  the  king's  soldiers  hunted  him  down.  "X" 
was  fined  ^100  for  breaking  the  law,  and  formally 
expelled  from  the  territory  as  a  dangerous  char- 
acter. 

What  a  pitiful  spectacle  is  this,  of  an  ignorant 
African  savage  struggling  with  intelligent  European 
Christians  (!)  to  save  his  people  from  the  horrors  of 
intemperance,  a  vice  thrust  upon  him  by  civilization. 

—  W.  T.   HORXADAV. 


18.  Listen  to  the  tragic  story  of  Madagascar.  In 
1800  the  Malagasy  were  a  nation  of  idolaters;  now 
they  are  a  nation  of  Christians.  Unhappily  Mauri- 
tius became  a  sugar-producing  colony,  and  rum  was 
made  from  the  refuse  of  the  sugar-mills.  What  was 
to  be  done  with  it  ?  It  was  not  good  enough  for  the 
European  markets,  and  Madagascar  "  was  made  the 
receptacle  for  the  damaged  spirit  of  the  colony." 
They  received  the  curse  in  their  simplicity,  and  it 
produced  frightful  havoc.  "  The  crime  of  the  island 
rose  in  one  short  year  by  leaps  and  bounds  to  a 
height  too  fearful  to  record."  The  native  govern- 
ment was  seized  with  consternation,  and  the  able 
and  courageous  king,  Radama  I.,  paid  the  duty  and 
ordered  every  cask  of  rum  to  be  staved  in  on  the 
shore,  except  those  that  went  to  the  government 
stores.  The  merchants  of  Mauritius  complained; 
the    English    officers    interfered ;     and     from     that 


g6       WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

day  the  "cursed    stuff"  has    had    free    course,  and 
deluged  the  land  with  misery  and  crime. 

*  * 

19.  If  Islam  and  Arab  influence  advance  with  the 
sword  in  one  hand  and  the  Koran  in  the  other,  Chris- 
tianity and  European  influence  go  to  Ethiopia,  as  she 
stretches  out  her  hands  to  God,  with  the  Bible  in  one 
hand  and  rifle  or  rum-bottle  in  the  other.  We  see 
ourselves  in  our  proclamations,  but  Africans  see  us 
in  our  acts.  We  think  of  Islam  as  inseparable  from 
slave  trade  ;  the  open-eyed  and  quick-witted  Africans 
think  Christianity  the  slave  of  commerce  and  the  rum 
trade.  W^e  decry  and  try  to  stamp  out  their  slave 
trade  ;  we  fail  to  choke  our  liquor  traffic.  Yet  this 
is  more  blood-guilty  than  that.  So  the  native  says  : 
Christians  are  hypocrites.  Missionaries  are  but  broth- 
ers of  traders.  I  prefer  to  remain  uncivilized.  Tall 
hats  and  new  rum  have  attractions,  but  it  is  better  to 
stay  black  and  bareheaded  and  pagan  and  even  so- 
ber than  to  wear  "  stove-pipes  "  and  get  drunk  and  be 
"  done  brown''  by  Bible-reading  pale-faces.  —  F.  P. 

Noble. 

*  * 

20.  We  beg  of  you  to  send  us  more  Gospel  and 
less  rum.  — Ugalla,  a  Congo  native. 


For  these  references  and  a  storehouse  of  other  material  on  the  sub- 
ject see  Africa  and  the  Drink -Trade,  by  Farrar  :  Free  Rum  on  the 
Congo,  W.  T.  Hornaday;  Tlie  Liqiwr  Traffic  in  Western  Africa, 
Mary  Clement  Leavitt ;  Ligtior  on  the  Corigo,  Henry  M.  Stanley; 
Christendojn  's  Rum  -  Trade  with  Africa,  Frederic  Perry  Noble,  in 
Missionary  Review  of  the  World,  p.  412,  June,  1894. 


WEAPONS    FOR   TEMPERANCE   WARFARE.      97 

A  LESSON  IN  TEMPERANCE  HISTORY. 

PROGRAMME. 

Scripture  Lesson.  Prayer. 

Hymn  —  "Faith  is  the  Victory." 

Paper  —  "  Drink  Customs  Among  the  Ancients."  <» 

Miss  C 

Paper  —  "The  Great  Social  Change  in  the  Nineteenth 

Century"* Mr.  W 

Music  —  "There's  a  Better  Time  A-coming."-^ 

THREE-MINUTE   TALKS,  a' 

Topic  —  "Some  Factors  of  the  Great  Social  Change." 

Conducted  by  Dr.  G 

1.  "The  Temperance  Shot  that  Echoed  Round  the 

World  "^ Mr.  B 

2.  Lyman  Beecher's  "Six  Lectures  "/   .     .  MiSS  K 

3.  The  "Moral  Suasion  Crusade  ".r  .     .      .  Prof.  J • 

4.  Father  Mathew,  Temperance  Apostle-^     .  Miss    S 

5.  "The  Greatest  Reformer  of  the  World's  Greatest 

Reform  "  i Dr.  M ■ 

6.  "A  Ribbon  of  Blue  "  {Xtcm.  15  :  37-39)7  Miss  C 

7.  The  Woman's  Crusade-^ Mrs.  S 

8.  A  "  Bow  of  White  Ribbon  "  /  .     .     .     .  Mrs.  A 

Original  Poem'«  (or  Story),  "A    Spoiled  Thanks- 
giving, «   or,   The   Need   of   a   Greater   Social 

Change" Miss  F 

Hymn — "Dare  to  Be  a  Daniel." 


95   WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE. 

REFERENCES. 

a.  Axel  Gustafson's  Fojindation  of  Death. 

b.  The  Blue  Ribbon,  by  Kimball. 

c.  Song  Leaflet,  W.  C.  T.  U. 

d.  "  Two-Minute  Talks,"  p.  64. 

e.  See  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  "  Sketches  of  Noted  Temperance 
Workers,"  p.  31. 

f.  See  Lyman  Beecher,  Etuyclopcedia  0/  Temperance  and  Prohi- 
bition. 

g.  See  "The  Washingtonian  Movement,"  EncycIopiEdia  of  Tern, 
perance  and  Prohibition. 

h.    "  Sketches  of  Noted  Temperance  Workers,"  p.  31. 

/.  John  B.  Gough.  See  "  Sketches  of  Noted  Temperance  Work 
ers,"  p.  31. 

j.    Murphy  Movement.     See  The  Blue  Ribbon. 

k.  The  Woman's  Crusade.  See  Memories  of  the  Crusade;  En^ 
cyclopCBdia  of  Temperance  and  Prohibitio7i ;  The  Story  of  the  Cru 
sade. 

I.  Badge  of  the  W,  C.  T.  U.  For  history  of  it,  see  E?icyclopcedict 
of  Temperance  and  Prohibition ;  Do  Everything,  by  Frances  E. 
Willard. 

;«.    See  "  Original  Stories  and  Poems,"  p.  67. 

n.  The  title  of  a  very  striking  temperance  picture,  drawn  by  Alice 
Barber  Stevens,  in  Harper  s  Weekly,  Nov.  28,  1896.  If  the  story  or 
poem  is  written  from  the  picture,  it  would  add  to  the  interest  to  dis- 
play it  at  the  meeting. 


ALCOHOL  UNMASKED. 

"  The  worst  thing  ever  put  in  drink  is  alcohol." 

Dr.  Janeway. 
PROGRAMME. 

Scripture  Lesson.  Prayer. 

Vocal  Solo. 
Traditions  about  Alcohol  «      ....  Miss  A- ■ 


WEAPONS    FOR   TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.      99 


A  Half-hour  with  the  Little  Detective. -^ 

Prof. 

"  King  Alcohol  has  many  forms 

By  which  he  catches  men  ; 
He  is  a  beast  of  many  horns, 

And  ever  thus  has  been. 
There  are  rum  and  gin  and  beer  and  wine. 

And  brandy  of  logwood  hue  ; 
And   these  with  other  fiends  combined, 

Will  make  any  man  look  blue."^ 


Vocal  Solo — "Where  there's  Drink  there's  Dan- 
ger"^      Mrs.  O 

Quiz  on  Alcohol  <?    .     .     .       Conducted  by  Dr.  S 

Recitation  —  Cold  Water — "The  Royal  Guest  of 
Man  Wonderful  in  the  House  Beautiful."/ 

Miss  T 

REFERENCES. 

a.  "Traditions  about  Alcohol,"  p.  68. 

b.  "  Simple  Experiments  with  Alcohol,"'  p.  69.  Select  about  a 
dozen  experiments  to  show  that  alcohol  is  alcohol  wherever  we  find  it, 
—  in  cider,  beer,  wine,  whiskey,  medicines,  etc. 

c.  The  first  verse  of  a  quaint  temperance  song,  composed  by  Jesse 
Hutchinson.  It  was  first  sung  by  the  famous  Hutchinson  family  in 
the  old  Deacon  Giles  distillery  at  Salem,  after  it  had  been  converted 
into  a  temperance  hall. 

d.  Song  Leaflet,  W.  C  T.  U. 

e.  "  Quiz  on  Alcohol,"  p.  57. 

f.  See  the  chapter  called  "The  Royal  Guest,"  in  the  book,  TJie 
Alan  Wonderful  in  the  House  Beatitiful. 


lOO    WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 


AN  EVENING  WITH  THE  W.   C.  T.  U. 

"  But  for  temperance  associations  we  should  be  immersed  in 
such  an  ocean  of  immorality,  violence,  and  sin  as  would  make 
this  country  uninhabitable."  —  Lord  Shaftesbury. 

PROGRAMME. 

Scripture  Lesson  —  Crusade  Psalm. « 

Prayer. 
Hymn  —  "  Onward,  Christian  Soldiers." 


All  About  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  —  A  Catechism. -^ 

Conducted  by  Miss  C 

Sketch  c Miss  M 

"The  Best  Loved  Woman  in  America." 

Reading  —  "  The  Daughter's  Sacrifice  "  d     Miss  W 

Thumb-Nail  Sketches  of  White  Ribbon  Leaders.^ 

Conducted  by  Mrs.  K 

' '  Around  the  World  the  Ribbon  White  is  Twined.  ' '/ 

Miss  T 

Music  —  "  Some  Glad  Day.'V 


REFERENCES. 

a.  Ps.  146.  For  the  story  about  the  psalm  see  the  article  "  Cru- 
sade," in  Encyclopeedia  of  Temperance  and  Prohibition. 

b.  See  "  Annual  Leaflet  of  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union,"  published  by  the  W.  T.  P.  A.,  The  Temple,  Chi- 
cago. This  contains  a  great  quantity  of  material  in  the  form  of  a 
catechism.  In  using  it,  it  must  be  much  shortened.  See  also  Do 
Everything,  by  F.  E.  Willard. 

c.  See  "  Sketches  of  Noted  Temperance  Workers,"  p.  31. 

d.  In  Readings  atid  Recitations,  No.  8,  by  Miss  L.  Penny. 

e.  Selections  from  Thumb-Nail  Sketches  of  White  Ribbon  Women. 

f.  Onginal  poem,  or  prose  article,  about  the  work  of  the  W.  C.  T. 
U.  in  foreign  lands.  g.   Song  Leaflets,  W.  C.  T.  U. 


WEAPONS  FOR  TEMPERANCE  WARFARE.  lOI 


WANTED  !     A  PICTURE. 

(This  item  and  the  one  following  would  be  useful  in  the 
advertisement  column  of  a  Temperance  Budget.) 

Canon  Farrar  writes  thus  :  — 

"  Many  years  ago,  in  Mr.  Ruskin's  house  at  Den- 
mark Hill,  I  was  sitting  at  lunch  opposite  to  Turner's 
magnificent  and  awful  picture  of  the  slave-ship.  I 
could  think  of  nothing  else,  as  I  gazed  spellbound  at 
those  waves  incarnadined  with  sunset,  and  horrible 
with  the  scene  of  murder.  And  as  I  was  trying  to 
take  in  the  full  awfulness  of  the  moral  protest  which 
the  picture  embodied,  'Yes,'  said  Mr.  Ruskin,  'that 
is  Turner's  sermon  against  the  slave-trade. ' '' 

Is  no  artist  great  enough  to  preach  such  a  sermon 
against  the  worse,  because  more  plausible,  more  se- 
ductive, more  creeping,  and  more  destroying  shame- 
fulness  of  the  drink  traffic,  which  inevitably  involves, 
not  only  the  demoralization,  but  even  the  sure,  if 
slow  extinction  of  native  races? 


WANTED!     A   STORY. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Outlook  relates  the  follow- 
ing interview  with  Mrs.  Stowe  :  — 

"  A  number  of  years  ago  I  called  upon  Mrs.  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe  to  talk  to  her  in  regard  to  the  temper- 
ance cause.  I  felt  that  nothing  but  a  thrilling  story 
such  as  Uncle  Toms  Cabin  would  awaken  a  strong 


I02    WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE. 

and  absorbing  interest.  When  I  told  her  how  I  felt 
in  regard  to  it,  and  that  she  was  the  only  one  among 
our  writers  who  had  the  ability  or  the  genius  to  por- 
tray the  evils  of  intemperance  in  such  a  way  as  to 
produce  the  desired  result,  a  look  of  intense  sadness 
came  over  her  face.  She  said  that  she  '  could  not 
attempt  such  a  work,  —  it  would  be  too  sad.  There 
was  a  bright  side  to  slavery,  —  there  were  kind  mas- 
ters sometimes,  and  happy  slaves,  —  but  there  could 
be  no  bright  side  to  intemperance.'  She  said  that 
'  even  the  fun  and  frolic  of  young  men  when  but 
slightly  under  the  influence  of  strong  drink  was  pain- 
ful to  her,  knowing  to  what  it  might  lead.'  '  When 
she  wrote  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  she  could  have  a  change 
occasionally  ;  after  writing  the  trying  scenes  she  could 
change  to  the  humorous  or  cheerful  aspect,  but  in  a 
story  on  the  "  drink  problem  "  it  would  be  all  dark.'  " 


WEAPONS    FOR    TEMPERANCE    WARFARE.     I03 


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Alcohol  and  Science.     Hargreaves.     Paper 5° 

Cloth ^-5° 

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Alcohol  and  Hygiene.     Julia  Colman.     Paper 25 

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Temper atice  Hand  Book  for    Speakers    and    Workers. 

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